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of the brain. When we arrived at Tuli, the 

 General, on meeting Dr Jameson, asked him to 

 go and see me. The doctor prescribed complete 

 rest and darkness, and confinement to my tent. 

 Eventually, he sent round a small bottle of eau-de- 

 Cologne, a bottle he had brought up for himself. I 

 felt deeply grateful for his attention. The doctor 

 had just returned from Fort Salisbury, and I was 

 told that he had been the means of saving the life 

 of Mr Rutherford Harris. This gentleman, after 

 bathing in a pool in one of the rivers up there, was 

 seated drying himself on a rock when a crocodile 

 seized him by the small of the back, lacerating it 

 severely. The doctor up there had ordered Mr 

 Harris continually to bathe the part with hot water 

 and bandage it ; so frequently was he advised to 

 do this that the injured part looked like becoming 

 gangrenous. Dr Jameson at once altered the 

 treatment, and in a fortnight the patient had 

 recovered. 



Kindness and sympathy seemed to me the chief 

 attributes of Dr Jameson. I would never have 

 imaorined him as a leader of an almost forlorn 

 hope, as the Jameson Raid was. 



General Carrington had intended to proceed 

 to Fort Salisbury, the destination of Mr Rhodes, 

 Dr Jameson and Lord Randolph Churchill, but 

 at Tuli he changed his plans, having obtained six 



