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thither, and bound up witli cloths the right arm, 

 which was severely wounded, and bleeding. It 

 was not till the evening that he got on board the 

 ship, when we received the first news of him. 

 About noon he had fired a shot, but at the same 

 time a spark from tlie cock of the gun had fallen 

 into a large powder-horn which he had in his hurry 

 left open, and which hung on his right side (he 

 was left-handed, and fired his gun with the left 

 hand.) The powder (a whole pound) caught fire, 

 burst the horn, and threw the man on the ground, 

 severely wounding his right arm, and at the same 

 time burnt his belly. The wound on the arm was 

 not dangerous, though it was above six inches long, 

 and four broad ; all the skin, with the cellular 

 membrane, was torn away down to the muscles, 

 which lay quite bare, but uninjured. The patient 

 himself said, when I first examined him, that the 

 wound was of no consequence, I should only look 

 at his belly, where he had great pain. 



On the belly, the skin was burnt off various 

 places in the Regio hypogastricay but no deeper 

 wound was to be seen. The patient himself was 

 weak and pale, for he had been bleeding several 

 hours when the wound in his arm was dressed the 

 first time. The pain in the belly made him often 

 uneasy. To alleviate this, I applied emollients to 

 the part. The wound bled profusely during the 

 night, till a tourniquet was applied towards the 

 morning, which stopped the bleeding. 



