1 ILLNESS OF LIEUT. BARR. 407
2 ing to be absent from my duties at a time
3 when every officer’s services were most neces-
4 sary, I had abstained from having recourse to
5 those more violent remedies which most pro-
6 bably would have cured me at once. The
7 subsequent day’s exposure to a burning sun,
8 when the fever was on me,—at times so severe
9 as to compel me to recline on the ground, and
10 in this posture give directions for the proper
11 serving of the’ ordnance, or when the fire had
12 slackened altogether, to throw myself beneath
13 the leafless branches of a stunted tree, there to
14 seek for the little relief its slight shade was
15 calculated to afford,—did not, as may be sup-
16 posed, tend to alleviate my sufferings. Fifty
17 leeches were immediately ordered to my tem-
18 ples; but though the best that could be pro-
19 cured, they were very indifferent, and extracted
20 but little blood. The consequence was, on
21 the next morning I was obliged to be bled
22 from the arm, as I was in a raging fever,
23 greatly aggravated by the intense heat to
24 which we were exposed ; and on the third day
25 it arose to such a height that I again suffered