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He then complained the following clay that he was 
suffering from worms ; and when I told him that the 
Epsom salts would not have the effect of curing this 
complaint, but that worm -powder would, he begged 
me to give him some of the latter ; and I gave him 
three doses to use on three successive days. How- 
ever, my poor friend, though an intelligent man, 
thought that it might not be amiss to take fill this 
medicine at once, viz. four ounces of Epsom salts and 
six drachms of worm-powder ; and the reader may ima- 
gine the effect which this dose produced upon a rather 
slender man. Unfortunately, I had just taken a ride 
out of the town ; and he remained for full two days 
in a most desperate state, while his friends, who had 
sent in vain to my house to obtain my assistance, were 
lamenting to all the people that the Christian had 
killed their companion, the pious pilgrim. 
Besides these two men, there were many interest- 
ing strangers at that time in Kukawa, from whom 
I learnt more or less. Some of them I shall here 
mention, as their character and story will afford 
the reader a glance at one side of life in Negro- 
land. A man who had performed travels of an 
immense extent, from Khorasan in the east as far as 
Sansandi in the west, and from Tripoli and Morocco 
in the north as far as Asiantl and Jenakhera and 
Eertit towards the south, would have been of great 
service, if he had preserved an exact recollection of 
all the routes which he had followed in his devious 
wanderings ; but as it was, I could only gather from 
