The urine began to pass by the natural channel by the third day, and continued more or less until, on the seventh day, it had nearly ceased to flow at the wound.

But the restless spirit of the patient's friends could no longer be restrained.

Open hostility with the whites was expected to begin at every moment, and they insisted on his removal.

He needed purgative medicine on the eighth day, which they refused to allow him to take.

They assumed entire charge of the case, and the following day started with him to their camps 60 miles away.