To-Day, Some Of Our Brigade Of Coolies Begin To Complain Of Sickness,
Which Sounds Alarming, Not Only To Themselves, But To Us, For None
Others Are Now Procurable.
This results from their making too free
with unripe apricots, and drinking too many gallons of cold water on
The road; also, however, from the fact of my having doctored the first
patient who had presented himself, with a couple of pills and some
tea - a piece of generosity which drove all the others nearly mad
with jealousy and envy, and set them thinking how they also might be
participators in similar luxuries. The pills, although in this instance
selected promiscuously from a varied stock, were the great objects of
desire, and such was their confidence in the virtuous properties of
the remedy, that the character of the particular bolus that fell to
their share was to them a matter of no consequence whatever. So great
a rage is there for medicine among people who have never known the
luxury of paying for it, that even the blind and deformed continually
applied to us for it on the road.
AUGUST 12. - Halted to-day, and gave all hands a day of rest, which
was rather required after our incessant marching. In the afternoon
we explored the village, and enjoyed a magnificent sunset behind the
ranges of distant snowy mountains. The crops here were more backward
than those met hitherto, although the power of the sun was rather
on the increase than otherwise, as we advanced.
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