98 M. Auguste de St Hilaire’s Account of a Case of 
gan to feel myself relieved. A rather painful numbness which 
I felt in my fingers, was of short duration. I distinguished my 
cart and the neighbouring pastures and trees : the mist, which 
had formerly concealed these objects from my eyes, only hid the 
upper part of them ; and if it sometimes fell, it was only for a 
few moments. However this might be, the state of Joze Ma- 
riano continued to give me great uneasiness ; and I was equally 
tormented by the dread of never being able to recover the en- 
tire use of my strength and intellectual faculties. A renewal of 
the vomiting began to dissipate these fears, and procured me 
fresh relief. I had now still less difficulty in distinguishing 
the objects with which I was surrounded. I began to speak 
Portuguese and my mother tongue at pleasure ; my ideas be- 
came more connected ; and I clearly pointed out to the young 
Frenchman where he would find an emetic. When he had 
brought it to me, I divided it into three portions ; and I vomit- 
ed, along with torrents of water, the rest of the food which I 
had taken in the morning. Until the moment when I had dis- 
charged the last portion of the emetic, I had found a sort of plea- 
sure in swallowing warm water at long draughts, but after this it 
began to produce a repugnance in me, and I ceased to drink it. 
The mist entirely disappeared; I drank some cups of tea, took 
a short walk, and soon found myself in my usual state. 
Nearly at the same moment his reason suddenly returned to 
Joze Mariano, without his having experienced any vomiting. 
He now assumed new habits, mounted on horseback, and rode 
off to look for the soldier, whom he presently brought back. 
It might be ten in the morning when we all three tasted the 
honey which had proved so injurious to us, and the sun was set- 
ting before we found ourselves perfectly recovered. The mo- 
mentary absence of the Frenchman and Botocudo Indian had 
preserved them from eating of the honey along with us. The 
soldier had presented it to the Guarani workman ; but the latter 
knowing its deleterious quality had refused to take it. The Bra- 
zilian laughed at his fear, and did not even think that they 
should offer me part of it. 
Next day I w r as still somewhat weak. The soldier complained 
of being deaf of an ear. Joze Mariano asserted, that he had 
not yet recovered his strength, and that his whole body seemed 
