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It was in this fituation that, feeing no means of immediate 
relief, I began to feel impatience ; which, as I continued in a 
ftate of perfedt inactivity, communicated the more rapidly its 
pernicious influence to my ftate of health. On the fourteenth 
day after my arrival, I was attacked with a violent fever, at- 
tended with extreme pain in the head. How long it lafted I 
cannot precifely fay, having on the fecond day loft my recollec- 
tion. It was afterwards recalled by the effedt of a dyfentery, 
which lafted for two days, and left me too weak to affift my- 
felf. I had reflection enough to know, that of the aliments 
there to be procured, fcarcely any could be found that would 
not be pernicious. After the firft attack therefore, I confined my- 
felf to the ufe of bark and water, which laft I drank in great 
quantities. 
A little more than a month had elapfed, when the fymptoms 
appearing to diminifli, I again prefled to be permitted to vifit 
the refidence of the Sultan. But I had reafon to regret my 
impatience j for having at length obtained leave, I proceeded to 
El Faftier, only to repeat my fuffering. The rainy feafon was 
almoft at an end, but the air, which ftill continued infalubrious, 
fatigue, and anxiety renewed the malady, which, after extreme 
abftinence, and having gone through the ftiort catalogue of reme- 
dies which I had had the precaution to take with me, I found 
unabated. Exceffive headachs, laffitude, thirft, occafional con- 
ftipation, fucceeded by extreme irritation of the vifcera, conti- 
nued for feveral months to ftiew the inefficacy of my precau- 
tions, and to incapacitate me from all perfonal exertion. At 
length the heat of the enfuing fummer gradually increafmg, and 
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