Waldie's select circulating library Volume 7 - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1836 Excerpt: ... cholera, which would be interpreting rather too strictly the medical maxim, ""Dementi occurrite morbo." In order to ascertain what credit the rumour deserved, I called on General Voirol, and finding that lie did not believe it, I requested his assistance to obtain for me a passage on board of the first government steamer that might be going to Oran. "That" he said, "is not so easy as it may seem, there arc so inany applicants fur passages; however, we must see what c;m ho done for you. Come, if you plcasr, and dine wild me to-morrow; you will meet General Derniccls, who is to embark the next day as commandant for Oran, and I hope he will be able to take you with him." I went accordingly, and wo had a very pleasant party, every body agreeing to despise the report of the cholera having come to Oran. General Demicels told me he could not give me a passage unless I was invested nominally with some office in his suite. " Then, make me your Latin secretary," said I, and it was agreed to iiulantcr that I should write all the Latin letters he might have occasion to send to the Arabs. After a cheer-. ful evening, however, I awoke to hear serious news in the morning. I called at an early hour on General Dc-, micels--his countenance was very serious; the intelligence of the pestilence having broken out at Oran had arrived at Algiers about midnight. "It is my duty," he said, "to go to the infected place, but if I were you I should not go." I told him that such was my resolution, not merely from apprehension of cholera, but from tiie fear of being shut up in Oran for an indefinite time by the embargo that would be imposed upon the place. I took leave of him with pain, to see a brave man going off to the c...

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