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 342 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER

the cool fhade of the large trees, invited by the pleafant breeze from the north, which leemed to be merely local, confined to this fmall grove, created probably by the vici- nity of the water, and the agitation we had occafipncd in it.

In this helplefs ftate to which w€ were reduced, I alone continued not weakened by th-e iimoom, nor overcome by fleep. A Ganjar Arab, who drove an afs laden with fait, took this opportunity of Healing one of the mules, together with a lance and fhield belonging to one of my fervants. The country was fo woody, and he had fo much advantage of us in point of time, and we were in fo weak and discoura- ged a ftate, that it was thought in vain to purfue him one llep. So he got olF with his booty, unlefs he was intercept- ed by fome of thofe wild bcafts, which he would find eve- rywhere in his way, whether he returned to Ras el Feel, or the frontiers of Kiiara, his own country.

Having refrefhed ourfelves with a little fleep, the next thing was to fill our girbas, or fkins, with water. But be- fore we attempted this, I thought to try an experiment of mixing about twenty drops of fpirit of nitre in a horn of ■waier about the fize of an ordinary tumbler. This I found greatly refrefhed me, though my headach ftill continued. It had a much better efTecfl upcn my fervants, to whom I gave it; for they all feemed immediately recovered, and their fpirits much more fo, from the rcfledlion that they had with them a remedy they could truft to, if they fliould again be fo imforiunate as to meet this poifonous wind or vapour.

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