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ROUTE .11ROM MOGODOR TO MOROCCO. ~191hey seeaEuropean bring down a bil'd from the wing, though theyare1tbelllse]ves very adroit at a standing mark.During the night severai shots were fired, as aIleged, at a thief; ifso,lIe was a bold one too.SidiTorFiniss, as yet Bassa, was bittell during the night by an Ulltnownbut poisonousanimal, whieh, as 6.rst 'fUmourconveyed it, hadcrept into his slipper: and as sm.all causesprodl1ce importanteffects,thus our plans were deranged, and the whole camp thrown into agitation.The Moors appeared very much alarmed, and thepoor man1îimself bore every appearance of being at the .point of deathe Un­.quêstionably, ifit were pantomime, it givesa higl;1 specimen of thenational talent in thiswaY1 for never was onebetteracted. Sncb,hmvever, was thesurmisie which. some CQ\dd not bring themselves tol'elinquish. The duner blocks were buffeted to bring torecoUection thedescription of the fourteen species of the serpent tribe, aIl mortal toman, and 50 poignantlydepicted by the poet, ofAfrica. But hemorrois,iJipsas, aH yielded precedence where" , -Seps stetit exiguus-Cyniphias inter pestes tibi palma nocendî est !"and wheu-casting eyes upon its poor victim, it was'seén that" ---totum est pro vulnere corpus-"the poisouQusreptile was too palpabJy recognised in his works.Manyremedies were suggested, and seVerai applied; but none seemedso e.fficaeious (pitY ithad Dot beeu duly known in the days of Cato,it would have saved many valuable lives,) as the pauueh of a goat(weU fed) cut.out, and applied with aU its contents, smokip!iJ1ot",to thepart affected.~"Sleeping," notin his orchard but his tent, "a'Serpent stung him"-" that serpent wears the crown!"2}' 2The fatet in-