CHAP. VIII.] 
MY DAILY EMPLOYMENTS. 
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who was an eye-witness, declared that he could not eat 
his dinner for three days, so great was his disgust at 
this horrible feast. 
Although my camp was entirely separate from that 
of Ibrahim, I was dreadfully pestered by his people, 
who, knowing that I was well supplied with many 
articles of which they were in need, came begging to 
my tent from morning till evening daily. To refuse 
was to insult them; and as my chance of success in 
the exploration unfortunately depended upon my not 
offending the traders, I was obliged to be coldly civil, 
and nothing was refused them. Hardly a day passed 
without broken guns being brought to me for repair; 
and having earned an unenviable celebrity as a gun¬ 
smith, added to my possession of the requisite tools, 
I really had no rest, and I was kept almost constantly 
at work. 
One day Ibrahim was seized with a dangerous fever, 
and was supposed to be dying. Again I was in re¬ 
quest ; and seeing that he was in a state of partial 
collapse, attended with the distressing symptoms of 
want of action of the heart, so frequently fatal at this 
stage of the disease, I restored him by a very powerful 
stimulant, and thereby gained renown as a physician, 
that, although useful, was extremely annoying, as my 
tent was daily thronged with patients, all of whom 
