Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

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but as poor Foster's paws were differently
constructed it was deemed unadvisable to try
the experiment, so it was at last decided to
take the man to the Portuguese settlement of
Mozambique, where they were probably more
practised surgeons than at Mafamale.
On the 27th December he was placed in the
pinnace for conveyance there— but a hundred
miles in an open boat against wind and current
is not the best remedy for a patient with the
fever at its height, and we leave the reader to
estimate the chances of his recovery. The
pinnace returned in about a week with the intelligence
that, after a three days' passage, they
had landed poor Foster and placed him in what
was called a hospital at Mozambique—and the
next we heard of him was that he was
dead.
AYe do not know if the Portuguese doctors
were in possession of diplomas or not, but one
thing is certain, that, even if they were, an
English subject for dissection was as rare to
them as the anatomy of the canine species was
to a sailor.
I have visited Mozambique several
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