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2 departments, used their utmost endeavours to
3 bring in the wounded. All the men who arrived
4 were forthwith put into the entrenched camp,
5 and the doolies sent back for more; elephants, Exertions
6 carts, &c., were put in requisition, and during the Earnie
7 whole night of, the 22nd, the wounded were being aeeses ores
8 brought in, or found their way on foot ina state of
9 dreadful exhaustion from pain, loss of blood, and
10 want of food and water. Every available place in
11 this entrenchment was filled with wounded men
12 calling loudly for assistance, but little could be af-
13 forded until morning. The writer had an oppor-
14 tunity, on the morning of the 23rd, of witnessing
15 the lamentable condition of the brave European
16 soldier who had bled for his country’s cause, now
17 imploring in vain for a mouthful of water. As it
18 was impossible to accommodate the numerous cases
19 belonging to the European regiments in such a con-
20 fined place, we suggested the propriety of getting a
21 range of barracks for the wounded of each corps,
22 The suggestion was acted upon by the senior medi- Proposal for
23 ; accommoda- .
24 cal staff present, and in a few hours carts were pro- ting the
25 cured, and the men sent to the vacant barracks of yee
26 Her Majesty’s 62nd regiment. By noon they were
27 all in their own quarters; and quilts and cots
28 furnished in abundance; in fact, it was almost
29 incredible how the commissariat and executive de-
30 partments could supply so much comfort in such a
31 short space of time. The wounded owe much to
32 the unwearied efforts of Captain W. B. Thomson
33 and Lieutenant Goodwyn (who responded to every