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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
Chap. LII. 
but he did not complain. However, the next morn- 
ing he felt so weak that he was unable to rise from 
his couch ; and instead of taking a sudorific, which I 
most earnestly advised him to do, he was so obstinate 
as not to take any medicine at all, so that his illness 
increased with an alarming rapidity, and rather an 
alarming symptom appeared on the following day, 
when his speech became quite inarticulate and almost 
unintelligible. He then became aware himself of the 
dangerous state he was in. He informed me that in 
the town he should never recover, that it was ab- 
solutely necessary for him to get a change of air, 
and that he entertained the hope that, if I could take 
him to Maduwari, he might speedily regain his health 
in the house of our friend the kashella Fiigo 'AH. 
It was a difficult task to take my sick companion 
to the desired place, which is distant from Kiikawa 
more than eight miles ; and though he began his 
journey on Thursday morning, he could not reach 
the desired place until the morning of Friday. 
Having made a present to our friend Fugo 'All, 
that he might be induced to take sufficient care of 
him, and having left the necessary orders, I returned 
to the town in order to finish my despatches ; but the 
same evening one of the servants whom I had left 
with Mr. Overweg, came and informed me that he 
was much worse, and that they were unable to under- 
stand a single word he said. I mounted immediately, 
and found my friend in a most distressing condition, 
lying outside in the courtyard, as he had obstinately 
refused to sleep in the hut. He was bedewed with 
