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after I had determined to confine myself more to 

 bed, either to recruit myself after the severe fever 

 paroxysms, or with the hope of averting in sonic 

 measure the force of their attack by a little careful 

 nursing. I ceased, too, to take any pleasure in 

 the interesting conversations of Ibrahim, or Sheik 

 Tigh, or, in fact, any one from whom previously I 

 had ever been most inquiring respecting every 

 subject of importance or novelty I could think of 

 to ask about. My cup of coffee in the morning, or 

 a drinking hornful of the warmed ale, was the 

 only thing I dare indulge in, for solids of any kind 

 had a great tendency to occasion congestion in the 

 brain, and after eating anything a severe headache 

 was the certain consequence. I took the hint, and 

 gave up the honeyed repast at breakfast and the 

 fricasee at night, and made a point of conciliating 

 as much as possible that irritable viscus the 

 stomach, that seemed after all to be at the bottom 

 of the evil. 



It was a horrible retribution, therefore, for Wal- 

 derheros to contemplate, and which, no doubt, will 

 have a beneficial effect upon his future conduct as 

 regards the respect due to the institutions of the 

 Church, when, on the morning after the end of the 

 fast, which was to be a day of great rejoicing, I 

 intimated my determination to eat no more flesh 

 meat for at least a week. After all my jests about 

 the folly of fasting, telling my people that during 

 the continuance of such terms of abstinence, I was 



