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of one of his arms, and whilst I felt his flesh tremble at 
contact with my hand, I also felt a hot liquid running 
between my fingers. The man was wounded. I made 
him rise, when, trembling with fear, he uttered certain 
words which I did not understand. Pointing the 
revolver at his head, I compelled him to go before me 
to the camp. The report of the pistol had been heard 
there, but had passed unheeded, the firing off* a gun or 
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two, in the course of the evening, being a common 
occurrence. I called for two confidential followers, into 
whose hands I delivered my prisoner, and then pro¬ 
ceeded to examine his wound. The ball had penetrated 
close to the upper head of the right humerus, near the 
collar-bone, and, not having come out, I presumed that 
it was fixed in the shoulder-blade. As there was no 
blood apparent in the respiratory passages, I con¬ 
sidered that the lungs had not been touched, and the 
small stream which ran from the wound convinced 
