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fever as from debility of the whole system, induced by damp, 

 cold, and indigestion : this general weakness is ascribed by 

 some to maize being the common food, it shows itself in 

 weakness of bowels and choleraic purging. This may be 

 owing to bad water, of which there is no scarcity, but it 

 is so impregnated with dead vegetable matter as to have 

 the colour of tea. Irritable ulcers fasten on any part 

 abraded by accident, and it seems to be a spreading fungus, 

 for the matter settling on any part near becomes a fresh 

 centre of propagation. The vicinity of the ulcer is very 

 tender, and it eats in frightfully if not allowed rest. Many 

 slaves die of it, and its periodical discharges of bloody ichor 

 makes me suspect it to be a development of fever. I have 

 found lunar caustic useful : a plaister of wax, and a little 

 finely-ground sulphate of copper is used by the Arabs, and 

 so is cocoa-nut oil and butter. These ulcers are excessively 

 intractable, there is no healing them before they eat into 

 the bone, especially on the shins. 



Eheumatism is also common, and it cuts the natives off. 

 The traders fear these diseases, and come to a stand if 

 attacked, in order to use rest in the cure. "Taema," or 

 Tape-worm, is frequently met with, and no remedy is known 

 among the Arabs and natives for it. 



[Searching in his closely-written pocket-books we find 

 many little mementoes of his travels ; such, for instance, as 

 two or three tsetse flies pressed between the leaves of one 

 book ; some bees, some leaves and moths in another, but, 

 hidden away in the pocket of the note-book which Living- 

 stone used during the longest and most painful illness he 

 ever underwent lies a small scrap of printed paper which 

 tells a tale in its own simple way. On one side there is 

 written in his well-known hand : — ] 



" Turn over and see a drop of comfort found when suffer- 



