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When we arrived in cantonments I was 

 carried at once to the assistant surgeon's 

 bungalow, put into a bed, and ice applied 

 to my head ; this was done even before 

 he had time to summon additional medical 

 advice. I believe all the doctors who saw 

 me the following morning were of opinion 

 that it was a very bad case ; and I after- 

 wards ascertained that they attributed it 

 all mainly to the deadly and crushing 

 blow I had received in battle, and the 

 want of medical treatment at the time, 

 but it was too late to regret that now 7 . 

 My being carried into the station ill and 

 insensible, combined with the fact of my 

 having been a prisoner and condemned 

 to death, to say nothing of my hair- 

 breadth escapes, created quite a sensation 

 in cantonments, and little else was thought 

 of or talked about for days. 



