408 Incidents of Foreign Field Sport. 



ordinate or appliances, so to my numerous avocations 

 were added the doctoring and treating of some 

 one hundred and fifty men. A few died each working- 

 season. One was a very painful case. The man 

 suffered from inflammation of the bladder and stop- 

 page of urine ; had I had a bougie I might have saved 

 him, but hot fomentations and even blistering failed 

 to relieve him, and he died a lingering death. One 

 season I allowed a middle-aged woman and her 

 daughter to accompany us to set up a shop for the 

 sale of petty articles to the convicts (who, in addition 

 to their rations, were allowed a couple of annas a 

 day), and for some time all went well. One day the 

 two women fell out, and the mother immediately 

 swallowed a large piece of opium and died. This is 

 not an unusual occurrence amongst Burmese. They 

 often thus commit suicide on the slightest squabble. 

 As the schooner was going to Moulmein, I sent the 

 girl back in her, as I did not think it right to keep 

 her when alone amongst so many men. 



We had been expecting the plates for the iron 

 tower. They were doomed to misfortune. Some 

 had been lost in the Hooghly, the others were sent 

 me in a Government vessel, commanded by D., a 

 Scotchman, whom I knew well when he commanded 

 a steamer on the Irrawadie. In those days he had 

 a fat wife, as Scotch as himself and very jealous of 

 her husband, who was not an Adonis to look at. 



She, poor woman, had been dead about a year 

 when D. arrived with his cargo, and he had on 

 board as passengers K. and his wife and the 

 latter's sister. Poor D. was dreadfully smitten, 

 and could do nothing but follow the spinster about. 



