Upon Being Questioned As To The Cause Of His Illness, He Said He Did Not Know What Had Caused It.

He had no pain, he thought, anywhere.

I asked, "Do you not sometimes feel pain on the right side?" - "Yes, I think I do; but I don't know." - " Nor over the left nipple sometimes - a quick throbbing, with a shortness of breath?" - " Yes, I think I have. I know I breathe quick sometimes." He said his only trouble was in the legs, which were swollen to an immense size. Though he had a sound appetite, he yet felt weak in the legs.

From the scant information of the disease and its peculiarities, as given by Farquhar himself, I could only make out, by studying a little medical book I had with me, that "a swelling of the legs, and sometimes of the body, might result from either heart, liver, or kidney disease." But I did not know to what to ascribe the disease, unless it was to elephantiasis - a disease most common in Zanzibar; nor did I know how to treat it in a man who, could not tell me whether he felt pain in his head or in his back, in his feet or in his chest.

It was therefore fortunate for me that I overtook him at Kiora; though he was about to prove a sore incumbrance to me, for he was not able to walk, and the donkey-carriage, after the rough experience of the Makata valley, was failing.

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