Add to ORKGThus and here my long walk was interrupted. I thought that a few days of rocking in the Gulf waves would land me among the famous flower-beds of Texas, but the expected ship came and went while I was helpless with fever. The very day after reaching the sea I began to be weighed down by inexorable leaden numbness, which I resisted for three days, trying to shake off the heaviness that so oppressed me by bathing min the salt waves and by dragging myself about among the palms and strange shells and plants of the shore and doing a little mill work. I did not fear any sickness, for I was never sick before, and was unwilling to pay attention to my cloudy feelings, but yet heavier and more remorselessly pressed the growing fever, rapidly gainin...