The women lay all round me, and by degrees we managed to get on wonderfully together.
I showed them the different flowers and insects I had gathered during the day.

This, doubtless, induced them to look upon me as a learned person, and, as such, to impute to me a knowledge of medicine.

They begged me to prescribe for different cases of illness: bad ears, eruptions of the skin, and in the children, a considerable tendency to scrofula, etc.

I ordered lukewarm baths, frequent fomentations, and the use of oil and soap, applied externally and rubbed into the body.

May Heaven grant that these remedies have really worked some good! On the 11th of October, I proceeded into the forest, in company with a negress and a Puri, to find out the Indians.