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It, he faid he followed it by th^fmell with delight^fnufFing 
with his noftrils. Aftera long time being mightily foiled^ 
he alleadged that the faint fmell of the /w^Zf J?^^r hinder- 
ed him from drinking, and therefore defired a Bowl of 
Aki which was brought him i but after much ftriving, 
and exerting his tongue a thoufand times, he could not 
drink of it 5 and lapping with great affrights^ as oft as his 
tongue touched it he ftarted back with his head, bring- 
ing it down again gently to the Bowl a hundred times* but 
all in vain. And in this pofture, what upon his belly and 
what upon his hands and knees* he kept himfelt at leaft 
^nhom thus Tantalii^eing himfelf^ but it was not in his 
power to drink. We then gave him a ^a?Z? which con- 
lifted of two or three Joints, the one end in his mouth and 
the other in the liquor, but he could not manage it, nor 
fuck no more than a Dog* I perfwaded him to give over 
and lye down ^ which he did 5 atid not long after my going 
away he fell into a Convulfion Fit, bit and fnarl'd and 
catc'h'd at every body, and foamed at the mouth. After 
this Fit was over he took an Elieborifmin di Bolus , which 
was taken like 'the reft^ and very willingly by him^ it 
wrought about 3 or 4 times very plentifully, and he de- 
clared himfelfwonderfully at eafe by it 5 but yet now and 
then fell convulfed^and then always infenfible. After four 
hours I returned to him again* and found the Minijier 
with him 5 he talked veryfenfibly to him, prayed very 
earneftly with him, faying the Prayers after him, and de- 
fired the Sacrament^ which in thefe circumttances could 
not be given. ' ' 
He was again folicited to drink* and he now readily 
enough put himfelf into the former pofture, and with as 
much earneftnefs as ever ufed all the little (hlfts to drink, 
while the Bowl was under his head ;but all in vain. He had a 
little Silver Tumbler ffll'd with drmkput into his hand* 
which fuddainly * when he had as it were ftolen it near his 
mouth, he would have thrown it into his throat, as he did 
