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favourable opportunity which he obtained by 

 my breaking a rib and otherwise hurting 

 myself In a fall I had down a bunker 

 hatch which had been negligently left 

 open In an alley way, In front of the 

 horses on the port side, one evening w^hen 

 we were coaling at Las Palmas. As we 

 were in port at that time, the Militia officer 

 Immediately wrote off to the Remount Depart- 

 ment In London, saying that the accident 

 would keep me on the sick list for the re- 

 mainder of the voyage, and that he would 

 look after the horses. Next morning he came 

 into my cabin and asked me in what part 

 of the veterinary stores he could find the 

 mustard, which had been apparently concealed 

 from him under the word sinapis. I inquired 

 what he wanted with • that condiment, and 



