The Burton Holmes lectures; . A iORriGri:sE portal Could we have cured but one tenth of the maladies, or inany small way relieved the needless suffering which greets thetraveler in Morocco, we should have been happy ; but wewere not prepared ; we lacked both knowledge and medicalsupplies. It grieved us to play the impostor, yet it waskinder to the people, who in many things are simple as chil-dren. To refuse them advice and treatment would have beencruel, however worthless the advice and treatment. Ourwillingness to serve our doses of paregoric, our injunctions to. THE MOORISH EMPIRE 285 trust
The Burton Holmes lectures; . A iORriGri:sE portal Could we have cured but one tenth of the maladies, or inany small way relieved the needless suffering which greets thetraveler in Morocco, we should have been happy ; but wewere not prepared ; we lacked both knowledge and medicalsupplies. It grieved us to play the impostor, yet it waskinder to the people, who in many things are simple as chil-dren. To refuse them advice and treatment would have beencruel, however worthless the advice and treatment. Ourwillingness to serve our doses of paregoric, our injunctions to. THE MOORISH EMPIRE 285 trust in the one God, pleased and cheered them. That wasall that we could hope to accomplish. We even do a little veterinary surgery for a woundedhorse, a fine gray steed, lamed by a bullet in the leg. Thepoor beast is held prostrate while the bullet is cut out withmy pocket-knife, and the wound is cauterized with red-hotiron. The excitement keeps us from a realizing sense of oursituation, and it is only when in the gathering darkness
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