exhausting-receiver

Updated: July 20, 2026

Ghatroun, I am informed, has an entire population of coloured people, under the protection of a Marabout. 16th. Another day lost. Felt, however, excessively weak, and very nervous to-day. At one moment, I seemed as if I were placed in an exhausting-receiver, and was about to give up the ghost. It's perhaps as well for my health, we don't go on quicker.

James Richardson - Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846