50 THE HOESE AND HIS EIDER. 



pulling, as hard as they could lay to their oars, towards 

 him. 



It need scarcely be added that, regardless of the over- 

 whelming heat of the sun, the gallant fellows succeeded 

 in conveying their commanding officer on their shoulders 

 to the barracks, where he lay for some months in great 

 pain and danger. 



However, in due time, the paralysed muscles of his 

 back recovered their tone, and eventually, without even 

 being lame, he became completely restored to the health, 

 activity, and energy that had always characterised him. 



For a considerable time portions of his saddle, strips 

 of the hide and the broken bones of his horse, which, 

 lacerated by the branches of the trees through which 

 the poor animal had fallen, was literally smashed to 

 atoms, were collected by people, who amassed a consi- 

 derable amount of money by exhibiting and selling them 

 as relics in evidence of one of the most extraordinary 

 accidents that, under the superintending direction of 

 Divine Providence, has ever been survived by man. 



