1 piles. The.next morning J applied six • leeches to my side, ami
2 in the evening, the same number behind, •by which moths l
3 completed my cure without having lmd recourse to any other
4 remedy. Keeping the blistered part in a state of suppuration,
5 and treating the external inflammation with cold water, I made
6 such an improvement in my health, that my restored appetite
7 ■< ni enabled me to digest solid food. At the expiration of tire
8 days 1 felt sufficiently strong to resume my journey to Lahore,
9 to the astonishment of those who witnessed my departure,
10 wondering whether I was really recovered, or in a state of deli¬
11 rium, as only three days had elapsed since I made my will, and
12 their hakim had asserted that there was no chance of my recovery.
13 At the commencement I made but very short journeys. I
14 si ortly afterward; had several abscesses where the leeches had
15 been applied,one of them as large as a lien’s egg, mi that it was dif¬
16 ficult for nie to maintain a sitting posture, arid, notwithstanding
17 my good appetite, and the . aluhriotis air I afterwards breathed in
18 the mountains, the weakness, produced by only live days' illness,
19 .continued fora space of six months. What contributed greatly to
20 my illness, may perhaps have been the circumstance that I had not
21 been sea-sick, on our voyage to Rassora via Moscat to Bender-
22 Karatshi, as was the ease with thy servant Antun, who
23 inhaled the same atmosplier, ate and drank the same kind
24 of food and stinking water, &<■, without sulltring anv incon¬
25 venience. At that period, the Sindians were not yet acquainted
26 with the Lnglish, although they were their neighbours, and ac¬
27 cordingly we passed villages, where the people were not inclined
28 to furnish us with provisions, even for payment. Our camel-
29 driver advised us to lodge in the mosques, in order to he taken
30 for Maiminedans, Uy o doing, we were provided with food
31 gratis, by the hospitable musselmaiis. 1 and my servant were
32 dressed in the costume of the inhabitants of Bagdad; we could
33 speak the IVrsiuu, Arabic, and l'urkisii languages, had I one
34 beards, and addressed each other as Hajee, i. pilgrim. Our
35 carpets, which constituted our hetls, were quite similar, and were
36 placed close to one another. Wo ate together, according to
37 the eastern eustom, using otn lingers instead of knives and