Narrative of a Ten Years' Residence at Tripoli in Africa

Narrative of a Ten Years' Residence at Tripoli: From the Original Correspondence in the Possession of the Family of the Late Richard Tully is a work of travel literature based on personal experience in Ottoman Tripolitania, first published in England in 1816. The work was written by a certain 'Miss Dornbush' (fl. 1783—1795), given in the first edition as the sister, and in the second and third editions as the sister-in-law, of Richard Tully (born 1750; fl. 1768–1800), sometime British consul at Tripoli.

Plague

The Narrative contains many particulars respecting the plague visited Tripoli during the author's stay there. Half of the Jewish population of the town, nearly half of the Moors, and a still larger proportion of the indigent part of the Christians, full victims to the pestilence. Recoveries took place in certain cases, when the tumours were opened by a lancet; but this expedient was deemed efficacious only when the violence of the disorder was past.

Sources

• Colbert, Benjamin (12 January 2018). "Dornbush (Miss), fl. 1783—1795". British Travel Writing. University of Wolverhampton.
• "Narrative of a Residence in Tripoli". The Bath Chronicle. 19 November 1818. p. 2.

Further reading

• "The Barbary States". The Morning Chronicle. 31 July 1816. pp. 3–4.
• "The Plague". Christian Messenger. 24 February 1819. p. 4.

External links

• "Miss Tully". The Online Books Page.