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(the Qth Foot), found that ' there was life in the old dog 

 still. 1 I was carried on a French mule to Balaklava, put 

 on board the Orinoco, and taken to Scutari Hospital, 

 where, on the I4th of November, nine days after having 

 been wounded, I was trephined, and recovered my 

 senses immediately the instrument was removed, and the 

 pressure taken off the brain. I had a weary time in 

 hospital, and for months lay between life and death, but 

 thanks to the skilful treatment of Doctors Macgregor 

 and Anderson I weathered the shock, and although my 

 grog has been stopped I am still to the fore. Since then 

 I have seen many a red field won, but none to be 

 compared to Inker man, ' the soldiers' battle,' for hard 

 fighting." 



He had scarcely recovered from his wounds at 

 Scutari when he astonished the French cavalry officers, 

 at their camp, not far from Stamboul, by a marvellous 

 feat in horse-taming. He had gone by invitation to look 

 at some Syrian horses which were for sale : 



" I was turning away," he writes, " not at all satisfied 

 with their appearance, as they were too slight, and not 

 of the required height for my purpose, when I was 

 accosted by an officer of hussars, who offered to show me 

 a magnificent horse that no one would buy on account 

 of incurable vice. He was a Saclaye Arab, bred near 

 Blida in Algeria, and bought by a colonel of cavalry for 

 three thousand francs in that country ; but since his 

 arrival in Turkey he had manifested such vicious habits 

 that his owner had never mounted him. He was said to 

 have killed one groom by jumping upon him after he 

 had knocked him down with his fore feet, to have bitten 



