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 I8SI.] FEVER AND AGUE. 235

yet gaining so little strength, that I could with difficulty stand alone, or walk across the room with the assistance of two sticks. The ague, however, now left me, and in another week, as I could walk with a stick down to the river-side, I went to Sao Gabriel, to see Mr. Spruce, who had arrived there, and had kindly been to see me a short time before. I purchased some wine and biscuits of the Commandante, and then returned to Sao Joaquim, determined, though the wet season was now again beginning, to set off for the Upper Uaupes, as soon as I could procure men, and get my canoe ready.