1 vny pantaloons and boots. But my terror increased, when I
2 reflected that I was in the desert, far front every human being'
3 Whtit will become of me, thought If Must I perish by the
4 fr«r-t of the night; or must I become a prey to tile wild betels
5 on their nightly wanderings? Similar ideas rose in my imagi¬
6 nation, and I was in u desperate situation.
7 lint sometimes, at, the moment when our calamity is highest,
8 our delivery is nearest. Having committed that imprudent
9 stop of going into the marsh when! was fatigued an 1 excited,
10 f felt nothing as long as I was wading about; but now, as
11 the sharp air came in contact with my body, I felt the conse¬
12 quences of the evil I had brought, on myself. Against that
13 /K’rajh'vtjt/- there was only one remedy, namely:—to produce a
14 perspiration on the whole body. But Itow was I to effect this?
15 “ Necessity is tin mother of invention.” I grasped my cloth
16 pantaloons, and began to rub my feet with all my strength, until
17 my hands got weary, and in the meantime my whole body became
18 covered with perspiration. To my groat, satisfaction, I perceived
19 that my feet begun to become flexible, tied so 1 continued the
20 operation, and succeeded so far a« to ho. able to pul on my panta¬
21 loons and boots, anti walk slowly towards tny abode. There l
22 arrived very late, ordered a warm bath to he prepared, and after
23 half-an-hours bathing tvent to bed, having previously drunk n
24 glass of punch prepared with tea, which produced a good effect,
25 and thus I fell asleep. In the morning, when 1 awoke, nr, logs
26 were restored to their former activity.
27 At the same period, while I private physician to the
28 English consul at Tripoli, there happened an extraordinary case.
29 An organic defect of a yrung woman in labor required a
30 Caesarian operation to be made on her body, and l was ap¬
31 pointed to perform it; but the Greek bishop refused to give his
32 consent thereto, because that operation was an uncommon one,
33 and I could not guarantee her life. Even after the death of the
34 poor woman, wife of Georgius -Taui, ihe bishop again opposed
35 the operation, by which the infant might have been saved.
36 I and mv friends, the twin brothers Katzifliss (scarcely twenty