THE PLAGUE. 177 more or less violence, an/l then gradually disappearing.

During the plague at Mogodor, the European merchants shut themselves up in their respective houses, as is the practice in the Levant ; I did not take this precaution, but occasionally rode out to take exercise on horseback. Riding one day out of the town, I met the Governor's brother, who asked me where I was going, when every other European was shut up*? '* To the garden," I answered.— *' And are you not aware that the garden and the adjacent country is full of {Jinune) departed souls, who are busy in smiting with the plague every one they meet?"

I could not help smiling, but told him, that 1 trusted to God only, who would not allow any of the Jinune to smite me unless it were his sovereign will, and that if it were, he could effect it without the agency of Jinune, On my return to town in the evening, the beach, from the town-gate to the sanctuary of Seedi, Mogodole was covered with biers. My daily observations convinced me that the epidemy was not caught by approach, unless that approach was accompanied by an inhaling of the breath, or by touching the infected person ; I therefore had a separation made across the gallery, inside of my house, between the kitchen and dining parlour, of the width of three feet, which is sufficiently ' A sanctuary a mile south-east of the town of Mogodor, from whence the town receives its name.

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