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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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when the patient is a native. In Africa, where I
had a flourishing practice, another condition added
to my professional aplomb. I was always moving
forward and thus left my clients behind me, cured
by faith, I trust. Now, when the case seemed grave,
and was that of my friend, I felt miserable in my
ignorance. I could but give quinine and look cheer-
ful; it was a hard night for Anginieur, whose fever
gasped for water, though he must be covered cap-a-
pie to keep from freezing. Very early we were up,
looking about for H₂O in any form.
Mohammed Joo climbed to a forbidding niche
about a mile away and came back about seven
o'clock with a bucket full of reviving snow. Then
Lassoo explored a near-by elevation, found abun-
dant running water within a quarter of a mile, and
soon the rubber bed was full. Perilous as was our
position now, a day's rest for the invalid became im-
perative. And it was equally imperative that the
caravan should be lightened. We had now eleven
horses and grain enough to quarter-feed them all for
about five days. Unless some of them were better
fed, all would soon die. So we made a pile contain-
ing civilised clothing, books (about a dozen good
heavy ones that had come with me all the way from
London), our little camp table and chairs, my sex-
tant, and various odds and ends, altogether amount-
ing to about two loads. Then we redistributed the
packs and found that we could get rid of at least
three animals. Mohammed Joo was told to give
no grain to these three, to let them follow, if they
chose, in the hope of some sudden relief, or, if he
preferred, to shoot them. As his heart was half
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