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>on my head, during the attack of the rigors 



lich preceded the hot stage of the ague fit. 



The next clay, accordingly, the water having been 



operly procured, on the first symptoms of the fit 



ming on, I sat down in the shade of a large 



ikor tree, a variety of the myrrh, that grows at 



l elevation of seven thousand feet above the sea, but 



?lds no gum. Here, wrapt up in an Abyssinian 



be, which upon the first fall of the water I was 



drop from my shoulders, I awaited the coming 



ower from above, for Walderheros had climbed 



to the tree, whilst some assistants lifted up to 



m the large jar which contained the water. The 



tnedy, however, when it did come down, immedi- 



?ly laid me full length upon the earth, for what 



th the collapse of the system attendant upon the 



cold stage and the cold falling water, it certainly 



cut short the fever, but nearly at the expense of 



my life, for even when I recovered from the first 



shock, and was taken back to my bed, I was 



delirious for several hours after, — a circumstance that 



I have often had reason to be thankful for, had not 



been a very usual symptom of my disease. 



After this experience, that white men required a 

 very different medical treatment to the red Abys- 

 sinian s (for in this manner Walderheros endeavoured 

 to account for the failure of his hydropathic 

 remedy), I was not asked again to submit to any 

 more native means of cure for some time ; as my 

 recovery, however, was of the greatest importance 



