Narrative of the Shipwreck of the Sophia

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: we would cure them, and this evening was entirely employed in dressing their wounds. Those even who had absolutely received no injury, wished to pass under our hands. They surrounded us, crying: Tabib, tabib, (Doctor, doctor, ) and indicated to us, by making the most ridiculous contortions, the various...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: we would cure them, and this evening was entirely employed in dressing their wounds. Those even who had absolutely received no injury, wished to pass under our hands. They surrounded us, crying: Tabib, tabib, (Doctor, doctor, ) and indicated to us, by making the most ridiculous contortions, the various pains which they felt. Wishing to turn this circumstance to our advantage, we sought to give ourselves as much importance as possible. Each of us effected his cure; but the remedy was simple. A bottle of lavender-water, which we found on the shore, and which they had disdained, served us as a genera remedy. So long as it lasted, it was used for all disorders, and our reputation of doctors, which was established from henceforth, became, by multiplied consultations, the source of much annoyance. CHAPTER IV. .Arrival of the Bedouin Arabs, or Mussulmen.?Their prayer in the desert.?The Mussulmen seize upon part of the spoil of the Ouadelims.? They set Jire to the vessel ?A ship approaches the coast; momentary hope.?The sufferers depart with the chief of the Mussulmen.? March in the desert.? Unheard-of fatigues in the quicksands.?Absolute want of water.?They dig in the sand and Jind a source. The next day presented a new scene. On the morning of the 10th of June, when the first rays of the sun were beginning to gild the hills of sand, which formed the half of our horizon, we perceived troops of Bedouin Arabs approaching towards us. The brilliant display of their arms, which were reflected by the. rays of the sun, discovered them at a distance, and the swiftness of their camels soon brought them amongst us. Each camel carried two Arabs: the first seated on a small saddle, in the manner of European women, and the second in the usual way of a man on horseback. All these camels arriv..