of
a portion of my body usually covered by my garments, would at once
prove that I was a white man. I had used up the stuff that I had
brought with me, when I escaped from the square; and having no means of
procuring fresh stain, was getting uneasy; but this discovery of the
iodine put it within my power to renew my colouring, whenever it was
necessary.

"About a month later. I have been living here quietly, since I last
wrote in this journal. The day after I had done so, the Emir sent for
me, and said he had heard that I had taken bullets out of wounds, and
had shown the two doctors of the town how to do so, by means of
instruments found in a chest that was among the loot brought in from
the battlefield. I repeated my story to him, as to how I had acquired
the knowledge from being in the service of a white hakim, from Cairo,
who was travelling in the desert; and that I had no other medical
knowledge, except that I had seen, in the chest, a bottle which
contained stuff like that the white doctors used in order to put a
patient to sleep, so that they could take off a limb without his
feeling pain.

"'I have heard of such things being done by the Turkish hakims at
Khartoum, but I did not believe them. It is against all reason.'

"'I have seen it done, my lord,' I said. 'I do not say that I could
take off a limb, as they did, but I am sure that the stuff would put
anyone to sleep.'

"'I wish you to put it to the trial,' the Emir said. 'One of my sons
came back, from the battle, with a bullet hole through his hand. The
hakim said that two of the bones were broken. He put bandages round,
and my son said no more about it. He is a man who does not complain of
slight troubles, but yesterday evening the pain became so great that he
was forced to mention it; and when I examined his arm, I found that it
was greatly swelled. Slaves have been bathing it with cold water, ever
since, but the pain has increased rather than diminished.'

"'I will look at it, my lord, but I greatly fear that it is beyond my
poor skill to deal with it.'

"The young man was brought in and, on removing the bandage, I saw that
the wound was in a terrible state, and the arm greatly inflamed, some
distance up the wrist. It was a bad case, and it seemed to me that,
unless something was done, mortification would speedily set in.

"'The two doctors saw it an hour ago,' the Emir went on, 'and they
greatly fear for his life. They told me that they could do