THE PLAGUE. 181 caught the infection, having a carbuncle, and also buboes, and was confined two months before she recovered.

Case II. — L'Hage Hamed O Bryhim, the old governor of Mogodor, had twelve or more children, and four wives, who were all attacked, and died (except only one young wife) ; he attended them successively to the grave, and notwithstanding that he assisted in performing the religious ceremony of washing the body, he never himself caught the infection ; he lived some years afterwards, and out of the whole household, consisting of wives, concubines, children, and slaves, he liad but one person left, which was the before-mentioned young wife : this lady, however, had received the infection, and was confined some time before she recovered.

Case III.— Hamed ben A was smitten with the plague, which he compared to the sensation of two musket balls fired at him, one in each thigh ; a giddiness and delirium succeeded, and immediately afterwards a green vomiting, and he fell senseless to the ground ; a short time afterwards, on the two places where he had felt as if shot, biles or buboes formed, and on suppurating, discharged a foetid black pus ; a {jimmerd) carbuncle on the joint of the arm near the elbow was full of thin ichor, contained in an elevated skin, surrounded by a burning red colour; after three months' confinement, being reduced to a skeleton, the disorder appeared to have exhausted itself, and he began to recover • his N 3