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Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 - Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government by James Richardson
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to go to Kuka.

"Mr. Richardson, therefore, seems to have taken strong
medicines; in consequence of which, in the evening of the
third day of their halt at Rangarvia, after having taken a
walk through the town, he felt well enough to fix his outset
for the next morning. But this day being rather a long one,
and the sun being very powerful, he became very tired and
unwell; and the more so as, notwithstanding his illness, he
had not left off drinking milk, even on his camel, mixing
some brandy with it. Having recovered a little during the
night, he moved on the next morning, but ordered a halt
about noon, on account of his weakness. Having started again
at sunset, they encamped at midnight. The next day, after a
short journey, they reached the Wady Mettaka. Mr. Richardson
seemed to feel much better, and drank milk and a little
jura, besides rice. From this place, on the last day of
Kebia-el-awel, the caravan, after but a two-hours' march,
reached the village called Ungurutua, when Mr. Richardson
soon felt so weak that he anticipated his death; and leaving
the hut (where he was established) for his tent, told his
dragoman, Mahommed Bu Saad, that he would die. Being
consoled by him that his illness was of no consequence, he
assured him several times that he had no strength at all;
and indeed his pulse ceased almost to beat. He began, then,
to rub his feet with vinegar, and applied the same several
times to his head and shoulders. After which, in the absence
of his servants, he poured water also over himself; so that,
when they returned after a few moments, they found him quite
wet. To counteract the bad effect of this proceeding, they
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