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RESIDENCE AT SOCCATOO. 
to cool the burning heat of his body, of which he repeatedly com- 
plained. Almost the whole of his conversation turned upon his 
country and friends, but I never heard him regret his leaving them ; 
indeed he was patient and resigned to the last, and a murmur of 
disappointment never escaped his lips. 
On the 1 st of April, he became considerably worse, and though 
evidently in want of repose, his sleep became more and more dis- 
turbed. He swallowed eight drops of laudanum, four times a day, 
for three days ; but finding it did him not the least benefit, he dis- 
continued taking it altogether : this, with the exception of two 
papers ofSeidlitz powders and four ounces of Epsom salts, was the 
only medicine he had during his illness. On the 9th, Maddie, 
a native of Bornou, whom master had retained in his service, 
brought him about twelve ounces of green bark from the butter 
tree, and said it would do him much good. Notwithstanding all 
my remonstrances, master immediately ordered a decoction of it to 
be prepared, observing, “No man will injure me.” Accordingly 
Maddie himself boiled two basins-full, the whole of which he drank 
in less than an hour. Next morning he was much altered for the 
worse, and regretted his not having followed my advice. About 
twelve o’clock of the same day, he said, “ Bichard, I shall shortly 
be no more; I feel myself dying.” Almost choked with grief, I 
replied, “ God forbid, my dear master: you will live many years yet.” 
“ Don’t be so much affected, my dear boy, I entreat you,” said he : 
“ it is the will of the Almighty ; it cannot be helped. Take care 
of my journal and papers after my death ; and when you arrive in 
London, go immediately to my agents, send for my uncle, who will 
accompany you to the Colonial Office, and let him see you deposit 
them safely into the hands of the secretary. After I am buried, 
apply to Bello, and borrow money to purchase camels and pro- 
visions for your journey over the desert, and go in the train of the 
Arab merchants to Fezzan. On your arrival there, should your 
