To Wait There Any Longer After This, I Knew, Would Be A Mere
Waste Of Time, So I Ordered My Men To Pack Up That Moment, And We
All Marched Over At Once To Lumeresi's, When We Put Up In His
Boma.
Lumeresi was not in then, but, on his arrival at night, he
beat all his drums to celebrate the event, and fired a musket, in
reply to which I fired three shots.
The same night, whilst
sitting out to make astronomical observations, I became deadly
cold - so much so, that the instant I had taken the star, to fix
my position, I turned into bed, but could not get up again; for
the cough that had stuck to me for a month then became so
violent, heightened by fever succeeding the cold fit, that before
the next morning I was so reduced that I could not stand. For
the last month, too, I had not been able to sleep on either side,
as interior pressure, caused by doing so, provoked the cough; but
now I had, in addition, to be propped in position to get any
repose whatever. The symptoms, altogether, were rather alarming,
for the heart felt inflamed and ready to burst, pricking and
twingeing with every breath, which was exceedingly aggravated by
constant coughing, when streams of phlegm and bile were ejected.
The left arm felt half-paralysed, the left nostril was choked
with mucus, and on the centre of the left shoulder blade I felt a
pain as if some one was branding me with a hot iron.
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