What Remained Weighed As Follows, When Brought In And Hung To The Scales:

1 hind leg .

. . . 134 lbs.

1 " . . . . 136 "

1 fore leg . . . . 160 "

I " . . . . 160 "

Ribs . . . . . . 158 "

Neck . . . . . . 74 "

Rump . . . . . . 87 "

Breast . . . . . 46 "

Liver . . . . . 20 "

Lungs . . . . . 12 "

Heart . . . . . 6 "

Total weight of eatable portions . . 993 lbs.

Skin and head, 181 lbs.

The three days following I suffered from a severe attack of fever, and was unable to stir from bed. I applied my usual remedies for it, which consisted of colocynth and quinine; but experience has shown me that an excessive use of the same cathartic weakens its effect, and that it would be well for travellers to take with them different medicines to cause proper action in the liver, such as colocynth, calomel, resin of jalap, Epsom salts; and that no quinine should be taken until such medicines shall have prepared the system for its reception.

The Doctor's prescription for fever consists of 3 grains of resin of jalap, and 2 grains of calomel, with tincture of cardamoms put in just enough to prevent irritation of the stomach - made into the form of a pill - which is to be taken as soon as one begins to feel the excessive languor and weariness which is the sure forerunner of the African type of fever. An hour or two later a cup of coffee, unsugared and without milk, ought to be taken, to cause a quicker action. The Doctor also thinks that quinine should be taken with the pill; but my experience - though it weighs nothing against what he has endured - has proved to me that quinine is useless until after the medicine has taken effect.

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