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A man died during the march, and we had to doctor another 

 for violent coUc. The general mode amongst the people of 

 caravans of treating colic is to lay the sufferer on the ground 

 with outstretched legs, then to fasten the feet together above 

 the ankles with a strip of stuff, pass a stick through the stuff 

 and turn it round and round till the patient gives vent to terrible 

 screams of agony. When he leaves off crying out the Prophet's 



TREATMENT FOR COLIC. 



name, to which he volubly adds some half dozen of his most 

 familiar attributes, he is released from the rack, by which time 

 he is always quite cured, as we ourselves witnessed in more 

 than a hundred cases. 



Friday, March 30. — After a short march along the beach, 

 which was at first sandy, then muddy, we camped, the Count 

 having brought down one of the elephants wounded the day 

 before. It had led us far away from the beach, which was 



