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stone bottles against each other, as the husks of 

 some kind of seed, in which they were first packed, 

 got shaken out of the boxes. One of the great 

 complaints brought against Mahomed Allee by the 

 Tajourah people was, his having " shrab hubble- 

 bubble," drunk all the gin that had been entrusted 

 to his care as Ras ul Kahlah. Whatever spirit, 

 however, possessed the camel, I was applied to, to 

 exorcise it. To do this I took a large lump of 

 myrrh I had just gathered from the tree, and a piece 

 of opium I happened to have with me. These I 

 rolled up in paper like a horse ball, and having 

 seen something of the sort in farriery, when giving 

 medicine to cattle, I caught hold of the camel's 

 tongue with one hand, and passed the other, arm, 

 elbow, and all, far down his throat, so that the 

 animal could not get his physic back again any 

 how; a mode of medical treatment that delighted 

 the Dankalli exceedingly; and, had they been 

 governors of an hospital, they would have been 

 unanimous in appointing me physician, on the 

 ground of my merits alone. My success, too, was 

 surprising, for the camel recovered for the time, 

 and this addition to my fame, increased the confi- 

 dence of Ohmed Mahomed, in the efficacy of the 

 remedies I had also given to him. Had this latter 

 been treated properly he ought to have been bled, 

 as he was evidently labouring under a determination 

 of blood to the head. 



I was prevented performing this little operation 



