32 BIOGRAPHY. 



Waterton took his advice and sent for the practitioner, 

 Mr. J. Crowther, who decided that he could cure the in- 

 jured limb, but at the expense of great pain. The wrist 

 was much injured, a callus had formed in the elbow-joint, 

 and the shoulder was partially dislocated. After a time 

 spent in rubbing, pulling, and twisting, he got the shoulder 

 and wrist into their places, and then, grasping the arm 

 "just above the elbow with one hand, and below it with 

 the other, he smashed to atoms, by main force, the callus 

 which had formed in the dislocated joint, the elbow itself 

 cracking as though the interior parts of it had consisted of 

 tobacco-pipe shanks." 



The process was rough, and gave inexpressible pain, but 

 it was effectual, sleep and appetite returned, and health was 

 soon restored. 



From this accident Waterton drew a characteristic warn- 

 ing, namely, never to use ladders when climbing trees. 



One, if not the principal reason of his cessation from 

 tropical explorations, was his marriage. In 1829, he 

 married Anne, a daughter of the Charles Edmonstone, 

 of Demerara, who is often mentioned in the JVanderings 

 as a kind and true friend. 



His marriage has a curiously romantic history. 



Mr. Charles Edmonstone, one of the Edmonstones of 

 Broicli in Scotland, had previously gone to Demerara, 

 where he met a fellow-countryman, William Eeid of 

 Banffshire, who had settled there, and had married Minda 

 (generally called Princess Minda), daughter of an Arowak 

 chief. Charles Edmonstone married Helen, daughter of 

 William Eeid and Minda, and they had several children, 

 one of whom, Anne ]\Iary, became the wife of Waterton. 

 He met her in Demerara, while she was yet a child, and 

 made u]:> his mind that she should be his wife. 



Mr. Edmonstone afterwards returned with his family to 



