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who carried him to their camp and nursed and fed 

 him as well as they could for six days. Then as the 

 winter was fast closing in they sent a man out of the 

 woods with him to the Carry, and here I saw him. 

 His attendant asked me if I would look after him as 

 far as I went. I told him nothing could give me 

 more pleasure than to do so. 



When the steamboat arrived I took him aboard, got 

 a sofa for him to lie upon, and then looked over my 

 medicine chest. Picking out some tablets, which had 

 a very little of morphia in them, I gave him one of 

 these every three hours and made him drink hot milk 

 with some cayenne pepper in it. 



We reached Greenville very late at night, left at six 

 the next morning and arrived at Bangor about noon, 

 leaving the latter sometime in the early afternoon. 

 At these places, and wherever and whenever I could 

 get the hot milk, I made the poor boy drink it. At 

 Portland, I had a doctor examine him who said that 

 the boy was certainly in the early stages of typhoid 

 fever and that he also had intestinal catarrh, caused 

 by the eating of the venison before it had parted with 

 its animal heat. The doctor also said that the tablets 

 I had given him were " right " and that the hot milk 

 was " right." We reached Boston at nine o'clock in 

 the evening, and thinking that the train I was to take 

 was the same which was to carry the boy to his home, 

 I took him to the Providence depot, but found I was 



