Save a few decoctions of roots, there were no medicines; the sick were fed the same coarse corn meal that brought about the malignant dysentery from which they all suffered; they wore and slept in the same vermin-infested clothes, and there could be but one result: the official records show that seventy-six per cent.

of those taken to the hospitals died there.
The establishment of the hospital was specially unfortunate for my little squad.

The ground required for it compelled a general reduction of the space we all occupied.

We had to tear down our huts and move.

By this time the materials had become so dry that we could not rebuild with them, as the pine tufts fell to pieces.