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CHAPTER VIII. 



Water cure. — Nearly killed by it. — Ordered to leave Shoa.' — Pro- 

 ceed to Angolahlah. — Courteous treatment of the officers of the 

 Negoos. — Entertainment. — Remarks upon the character of Sahale 

 Selassee. — The Mahomedan religion. 



My illness increasing, each succeeding paroxysm 

 of fever leaving me in a more weakened condition, 

 my servant proposed a remedy, boasted never to fail 

 in effecting a cure. I had but a scanty stock of 

 medicines, that I had brought with me from Aden, 

 and these seemed to have little or no effect upon 

 my disease ; so I determined to give Walderheros a 

 chance of distinguishing himself by conferring 

 health upon his "gaitah" (master). 



To do this properly, it was deemed necessary 

 that some water should be fetched from a spring 

 by a man, and as this is a species of labour always 

 performed by women, Walderheros, not to be seen 

 at such employment, undertook to take the water-jar 

 for that purpose the next morning before daylight. 

 I also learnt that the cure was to be effected by a kind 

 of shower-bath, to which I was to submit, sitting 

 down whilst the water was poured from a height 



