CONCLUSION. 



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eighteen years past^ roving from clime to clime, 

 visiting the sickly shores of Madagascar and 

 Southern Africa^ burning in the deserts of Na- 

 maqua land^ and freezing in the regions of Nova 

 Scotia^ that J trust my experience^ (from paying 

 attention to my own constitution, and those that 

 have at different times been under my charge^) 

 will not be thrown away by presuming to offer it 

 to those who may chance to rove in foreign climes 

 as I have done ; and although it may not be 

 couched in all the technical language of phar- 

 macy, yet still I hope that it may be equally as 

 well understood, and taken in the light for which 

 it is intended, viz. — to be of service to the tra- 

 veller who may be placed far out of the reach of 

 any medical advice while prosecuting his jour- 

 ney in a wild and distant land, where medicine 

 is so little understood, and so difficult to be 

 procured. 



Previous to taking a journey across the Pam- 

 pas, (or any where in the interior of a foreign 

 country,) I would recommend the traveller, more 



