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the sun, caused an attack of bilious fever, 

 within an hour after quitting Cartago. I was 

 obliged to stop, and lie down under the cool 

 of a tree, until the evening ; when, with much 

 pain, I succeeded in reaching a small cottage, 

 on the left bank of the Cciuca, which river I 

 had to cross. I now had an intense headach, 

 accompanied with cold shiverings, and pains in 

 the back and loins. I examined two prescrip- 

 tions, given to me, by my friend Dr. Mayne, 

 previously to my quitting Bogota; and one of 

 them, consisting of six grains of tartar-emetic, 

 mixed with an ounce of Epsom salts, I imme- 

 diately swallowed, and went to bed. The next 

 day I took opiata Inglese, a mixture of bark, 

 sugar, and bitter oranges; being compelled to 

 become my own doctor, as there was not a 

 medical man within a hundred miles of me. 

 The following morning I sent to Ancerma, to 

 procure one of the two persons there who pro- 

 fessed a knowledge of the art of bleeding, as I 

 felt my veins overcharged with blood ; but I 

 was not successful in obtaining either of these 

 men, both sending me word that they were ill 

 themselves. Thus I was left another day in the 

 same state, with much fever, and pains in the 



