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the patient is kept in a darkened hut with cow dung burning 

 upon a wood fire. He is given hot water to drink, and to 

 prevent itching cow's urine is applied, or he may be rubbed 

 with burning sand. Anything cold in the treatment is 

 recognised as bad. A cure should be effected in fifteen days. 



Gosling left Yo with a transport of seven oxen on the 

 24th, arriving the same day at Arrige. On the way he 

 shot two of the white-rumped gazelles, which he skinned 

 and sent back to Jose the same evening. Thence he struck 

 south along the Lake, and on approaching Kaddai, where 

 there was a Buduma fishing- station, he came upon a party 

 of Kanembus with a large herd of cattle, which at once 

 commenced moving off. Thereupon, he sent a mounted 

 man after them to get information. This had the effect 

 of throwing them into a panic which soon spread to the 

 Budumas, and men and women rushed for safety into the 

 water ; for the sight of the galloping horsemen made them 

 mistake the party for Tubu robbers. Eventually confidence 

 was restored, and, although many of the Buduma canoes 

 had made off, Goshng was able to get in touch with the 

 chief, whose friendship he gained with a liberal " dash " 

 of cloth, and whom he prepared for the coming of our boats. 



The people of Kowa, a town two days' journey through 

 the bush south-west of Kaddai, were holding their weekly 

 market when he arrived, and there was a large concourse 

 with about a hundred oxen that had brought down corn to 

 exchange for dried fish and potash. 



As the next trek was a long waterless march of eighteen 

 miles to Bre, Gosling pushed on the same night, arriving 

 there at four o'clock in the morning. Thus, he had done 



