1 of Asia. At four o’clock the name afternoon I returned to mu
2 tint, at id retired to rest it the ordinary time, in the enjoyment
3 of tin: best of. health; and I should have slept longer than
4 usual, if Madame Mcntton had not come to awake me, and
5 announce that the camels were teadj for our departure. '! he
6 moment I began to rise, I felt a pain in my groin ; and a
7 presentiment of having been infected with the plague, caused a
8 rush of blood towards my heart, so that I had the feeling of
9 one who had been stabbed with a dagger. The pain in the
10 groin, the fever and my anxiety increased rapidly; and it wa*
11 with difficulty that I moved a few steps, in order to examine
12 the painful part, upon which t discovered some buboes, the size
13 of peas. I felt a burning pain, so I placed myself in the
14 kajaweb (basket) on my camel, and we departed. The station
15 we had to reach was five miles distant; the reason why we made
16 so short a journey was, that our only object wag to quit the
17 region of the plague, and even now I look upon it as fortunate
18 that I was removed to a place where the healthy • an - probably
19 aided the effect of the medicine which I had taken. As soon
20 as we arrived at our station, I took some of the small pills
21 of the above-mentioned P try eh nos 1 'aba St. Tgnatii. Although
22 Palee alone was infected by the plague, still the inhabitants
23 of the village did not. allow ns to enter it; they, however,
24 brought us all we were in want of, and took the money from
25 our hands without any scruple. During my scientific excursion
26 to Palee, my fellow-travellers had shot some ducks on the
27 marshes, and these were prepared; for our lunch. 1 was invited
28 hi partake of the repast, hut did not feel any inclination to
29 tat, as I was burning with fever, and inv pain was almost
30 insupportable; but not to cause suspicion, I took my place
31 •it the table, and the bits which I conveyed with one hand to
32 mv mouth, I transferred with the other to the napkin; this
33 1 performed with the skill of an adept. After dinner, I i periled
34 the dose of the same medicine, laid down, and covered myselt
35 all over, and in a short time 1 began to perspire to such a
36 degree, that my mattress was wetted 'through. In consequence