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SPORT AND WAR. 
CHAP. XYII. 
tion whatever with the Colony or any of the military 
posts. We were threatened every night and attacked 
nearly every day, but not again in a formidable manner. 
We were first placed upon half and then upon quarter 
rations; but even on this scale the provisions at the 
post could not last long. There were no medical com¬ 
forts, and I was kept alive in the most extraordinary 
manner. 
Amongst those that fled into the post there was 
a dear, kind lady named Mrs. James. Like all ladies 
when in a fright, they snatch up the first thing that 
comes in their way; it may be a bonnet, a ball-dress, 
or a turkey. Luckily for me it was in this case the last; 
and that turkey, under Grod’s good Providence, kept me 
alive. It was not like the goose with the golden egg, 
for it was a turkey producing the daily nourishment of 
life. Nothing but this sustaining egg could have pulled 
me through. The suppuration from my wound was so 
great that without sustaining food I must have died. 
My pulse was 130; I was in a high state of fever, and 
delirious for days ; and next to the turkey I am indebted 
to my kind friend Dr. Fraser for my life. His atten¬ 
tions were unremitting—by day or night he never left 
my side. On the fourteenth day secondary haemorrhage 
took place at night. I was lying, under the influence of 
morphia, in a sort of trance; Fraser was lying in the 
hut near me; my eyes were fixed, yet I had my senses. 
