She declared Meri had neither tasted food or slept since my departure, but had been retching all the time.

Dreadfully concerned at the doleful story I immediately thought of giving relief with medicines, but neither pulse, tongue, nor anything else indicated the slightest disorder; and to add to these troubles, Ilmas's woman had tried during my absence to hang herself, because she would not serve as servant but wished to be my wife; and Bombay's wife, after taking a doze of quinine, was delivered of a still-born child.
1st .-- I visited the king, at his request, with the medicine-chest.

He had caught a cold.

He showed me several of his women grievously affected with boils, and expected me to cure them at once.

I then went home, and found twenty men who had passed Grant, coming on a stretcher from Karague, without any of the rear property.