MY FEMALE PATIENT. 25 



people, although patient, industrious, and specu- 

 lative traders. Palm-trees still line the eastern 

 bank, while other kinds of trees are scarce. A 

 great quantity of Indian corn is grown in the 

 neighbourhood of Kacundah by the natives, whose 

 language is called Shabbee, and Kacundah is 

 by them termed Ibbodah. 



The female patient under my care, labouring 

 under an ulceration of the cornea, &c. was some- 

 what improved ; and though I could not expect 

 to save the vision of the left eye, I succeeded 

 in alleviating her sufferings, and I was in great 

 hopes that I should be able to preserve her right 

 eye. The poor creature appeared very grateful 

 for my attention, and submitted to cupping and 

 blistering with great fortitude. She wore seve- 

 ral bracelets of brass round her left wrist ; an 

 infallible mark of her being a person of consi- 

 derable consequence. 



At 10. 30 A. M. we got under weigh, with a 

 current of two knots and a half against us. The 

 reach we were in commenced in a north-north- 

 west direction, and afterwards trended north-west. 

 We passed a large town on the left, named Adao- 

 delooh, and another lying on the right, called 



