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whom I was to lodge, stopped me by the timely reminder: 
“ You acknowledge,” said he “ the man must die ere long; now 
if you give him any thing to-night, and he should die before the 
morning, the whole country about will have it that the Frangy 
has poisoned him ; and what you meant well, may cost you your 
life.” There was no resisting the verity of this argument, and 
I gave up the point. But that I believe was the only place in 
which the ministration of my attempts in this way were rejected; 
and death having never been a follower in any case where I 
chanced to interfere, whether the cure were or were not effected, 
I luckily escaped all hazard of the penalty my host of the Lou- 
ristans had held over me. A small knowledge of maladies, but 
a good deal of experience while in the East, and a little, but 
useful store of drugs in my medicine chest, constituted my 
whole pretension to the healing art. Yet, scanty as that might 
be, it was Esculapian to the miserable medical resources of these 
poor villages ; and on leaving many of them, it was no unpleas¬ 
ing sound to hear Mahomedan lips calling down blessings on 
the Frangy doctor ! for with that title they naturally dubbed me. 
September 15th. — We set forth this morning in a course 
nearly due south, in order to join the direct road nearer to the 
edge of the lake, which then lay about three miles to our right. 
Having got into the main track, our line of march then pointed 
more to the east by 60° for the space of five hours. At its 
commencement we passed a succession of fine villages on our 
left, mostly lying under the shelter of the romantic lower hills, 
amidst each its respective gardens thickly planted with trees, 
and their adjacent cultivated lands; forming altogether, a lovely 
contrast to the red and naked summits of the loftier mountains 
which backed their variegated beauties. All these little com- 
