Outing . nces for living about the place, except alarge, earthen water-jar suspended in therear door and eight or ten bamboo bench-like structures, evidently used for were various kinds of fruit, mostlycocoanuts, in one corner of the along the sides were bows, bun-dles of arrows, and various crude, butformidable - looking, weapons made ofbroken pieces of old iron. Stretched THE TRIP THAT FAILED 723 limply on one of the benches, in an abso-lutely nude condition, a third Indian lay,evidently very sick. There was not one word spoken be-tween the Indians and ourselves from thet
Outing . nces for living about the place, except alarge, earthen water-jar suspended in therear door and eight or ten bamboo bench-like structures, evidently used for were various kinds of fruit, mostlycocoanuts, in one corner of the along the sides were bows, bun-dles of arrows, and various crude, butformidable - looking, weapons made ofbroken pieces of old iron. Stretched THE TRIP THAT FAILED 723 limply on one of the benches, in an abso-lutely nude condition, a third Indian lay,evidently very sick. There was not one word spoken be-tween the Indians and ourselves from thetime we landed until we left. Some re-markable pantomime occurred when Docreturned from the launch with his medi- When Doc got through with the fe-verish Indian, he looked much im-proved. Final directions were given tothe nurse at the back door where theeastern and western horizons were vis-ible. Doc pointed to the sun, then tothe east, and counted out three pills, in-dicating that three should be taken at. TAKING IN HAND THE DIFFERENT ARTICLES OF FOOD THAT WERE IN SIGHTAND SHAKING HIS HEAD IN DISAPPROVAL AFTER LOOKING MEANINGLY AT THE PATIENT cine-case. He had taken in the situationat a glance and now proceeded to givethe sick Indian a thorough examination,and incidentally break in the futurenurse to his new duties. The Indian wasapparently suffering from simple mala-rial fever. It was interesting to watch Doc trainthis barbaric nurse. His professional in-stincts so far asserted themselves that Iam certain he forgot where he was, orthat he had started anywhere in partic-ular. His attentions to the sick Indianconcluded with a bath. sunrise, two when the sun was directlyoverhead, and one at sunset again. He even went so far as to put the In-dian on a diet. This, he accomplishedby taking in his hand the different arti-cles of food that were in sight, and shak-ing his head in disapproval after lookingmeaningly at the patient. Condensedmilk, appropriated from our commissarysupplies,
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