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·RAVELS IN AFRICA.And some Europeans give it full trial. Several too have resided'onthiscoast for· thirty years continuance, without an hour's iIlness ; indeed th~exterior of a physician (of Spanish diploma *), the only one who a1;...tempts to piek up a livelihood in that way in the' place, suffieientlydemonstrates the paucity of the eaUs Nature makes for that species ofaid here, where the professor was in faet the only morbid figure. Fa...·mine seemed indeed his chief ailment, and to aH appcarance hewas.not:long to survive. But the order for departure was giVCIl, and prepara-·tions cheerfully enteredupon; and an theday appointed the whole'cortege paraded. outsidethe warHsof Mogodor, at the hour of ten in theforenoon, to set out upon the journey, under an escort of nfty cavalry,with a standard, a company of gunners, fifty in number, on their route;'and a number of travelIers·, who avaiJed themselves of this opportunity{jf an escort, made in aH the numbeF of two hllndred amI nfty persons.RouTEfrom MOGODOR tf). MORoeco. (May and' June 1785.)-On·dIe 6rst ad vance into this country the aspect of it ts pleasing, and a'not' irtconsi'tlerablc' pàrt of it is under culüvation, performed' with nO'despicable degree of skill. Bafley harvestis· DOW advanced in progress.Scattered trees break the gIare of the white erop and stllbbJe;but where tillage does not prevail, an opea WQod of the spreadingargali, which cornes very near in its effect to the olltlines ofdwarf e>akor fine white-thorns, is dispersecl, and th1"owsbroken shades over wrange of country open in vast extent to the eye, and the surface ofA sick man in Spain Funs double risque; but here' the chances against him multipfy. A·friendof the author's, a resident ofthis country, suffered by a diarrhœa, imprudentfy called in medical aid,and with still more cufpable imprudence swallowed the prescription, not however Iike the king ofold suspectillg allY malus animus on the part of his physician. After having, however"done this,casting his eye upon the hand of this man of science, and observing it strougly tingedwith.yeIlow,he became a1armed, suspecting the cause; and on questioning found it to bethe ca.'ie, ,.that; he bad. received a powerful dose of gamboge. And only by means of powerful emetics wàs his Iife saved.