More potent remedies were administered to him, to his intense disgust, and he soon recovered.

The Colonel in attendance, whom he never afterwards forgave, encouraged the treatment.

"Give what is right; never mind him; he is very (_muito_) impertinent:" and all night long, with every draught of water the Colonel gave a quantity of quinine: the consequence was, next morning the patient was cinchonized and better.
For sixty or seventy miles before reaching Mazaro, the scenery is tame and uninteresting.

On either hand is a dreary uninhabited expanse, of the same level grassy plains, with merely a few trees to relieve the painful monotony.

The round green top of the stately palm-tree looks at a distance, when its grey trunk cannot be seen, as though hung in mid- air.