212. TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 
great hopes, though not then fourteen. He came to fee his 
-mother without my knowledge or her’s, and was infected 
likewife. Laft of all the infant child of Michael, the child 
of his old age, took the difeafe, and though the weakeft of 
all the children, recovered beft. I tell'thefe actions for bre- 
vity’s fake altogether, not directly in the order they hap- 
pened, to fatisfy the reader about the reafon of the remark- 
able attention and favour fhewed to me afterwards upom 
fo fhort an acquaintance. 
Tue fear and anxiety of Ozoro Efther, upon fmaller occa-- 
fions, was exceflive, and fully in proportion in the great-. 
er that now exifted ; many promifes of Michael’s fa- 
vour, of riches, greatnefs, and protection, followed-every in- 
ftance of my care and attention. towards my patients. She 
did not eat or fleep- herfelf; and’ the ends of her fingers: 
were all broke out into puftules, from touching the feveral 
fick perfons. €onfu, the favourite of all the queen’s rela- 
tions, and the hopes of their family, had fymptoms which 
all feared would be fatal, as. he had violent convulfions, 
which were looked upon as forerunners of immediate death; 
they ceafed, however, immediately on the eruption. The 
attention I fhewed to this young man, which was more: 
than overpaid by the return he himfelf made on many oc-- 
cafions afterwards, was greatly owing to a prepoffeffion in. 
his favour, which: I-took upon his firft appearance. Policy,, 
as may be imagined, as well as charity, alike influenced: 
me in. the care of my other patients; but an attachment, 
which providence feemed to have infpired me with-for my’ - 
own prefervation, had the greateft fhare in my care for Ay-- 
te, Confux. 
THOUGH: 
