Opening Battles around Ejahyay 
ished. That evening our mission yard was full 
of the wounded, all of them young men. 
We had received an intimation as to what we 
might expect from a young man who was the 
first to come. He stepped quietly into our 
piazza without saying a word. This was so un¬ 
usual that 1 desired to know what he wanted. 
He simply raised a cloth from his shoulders ex¬ 
posing a hole in the centre of his breast from 
which blood was trickling. Before we could 
give him any relief, the wounded began to come 
in such numbers that my wife had to become, 
for the time being, a hospital nurse. 
We did all we could for them, sewing up cuts, 
and taking out bullets and broken bones. The 
bullets were of iron or copper. The copper bul¬ 
lets were made by cutting off about three-fourths 
of an inch of a copper rod one-half inch in diam¬ 
eter. These produced gangrene and were much 
dreaded by the soldiers. 
Although the enemy were held in check, they 
were not discouraged, for they had just begun to 
fight. Areh did not praise his men that day, be¬ 
cause they had run over their officers in the bat¬ 
tle. The third day after that battle, the enemy 
reappeared in increased numbers, but received a 
signal repulse, the more remarkable because they 
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