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over castor oil, and evidently enjoys it, as well as 
rhubarb and ipecacuanha. In fact, I have tried him 
with all the most nauseous drugs mixed up in any 
manner to make them still more disgusting to the 
taste, and to get rid of him I once gave him a large 
spoonful of mustard in a pint of warm water, which 
he sipped off like coffee! I then told him to follow 
it up by plenty of warm water, and I believe it had 
no effect whatever on him ; he will drink a cupful of 
strong vinegar at a time if he can get it, and nothing 
disagrees with him. 
I was so much better as to be able to take the 
field again two days ago, and shot a buffalo, two 
quaggas, springbok, &c., and once again replenished 
the larder. The river is still very full, and the face 
of the country entirely altered. We have to take a 
fresh course, our old track being under water in most 
places. This, I fancy, must be a very unhealthy part 
of the world in the summer months. As the present 
is the most healthy season, there is generally little 
fear of fever and ague ; but my constitution is much 
shattered, one fit after another has told upon me, and 
an attack, instead of leaving one free for a time, only 
makes one more liable to another. I am afraid I 
must give up this life and remain altogether in Natal, 
in the Upper Division, where it is perfectly healthy, 
and I shall be entirely removed from any fear of 
more attacks. I have heard Dr. Livingstone has had 
something of the same kind ten different times. 
17th .—I have been better and worse this week—on 
