Beyond the shock he was not very seriously hurt, but his calves were torn by iron and stones.

He said he was the one survivor of the first English ship that sailed from the Cape with settlers for Natal.

He was certainly very old.
On the night of the 22nd a man was brought into the hospital where I lay--also attacked by sunstroke--his temperature 107 degrees, and all consciousness happily gone.

It was Captain Walker, the clever Irish surgeon, who has served the Gordons through the siege as no other regiment has been served, making their bill of health the best, and their lines a pleasure to visit.

His skill, especially in dysentery, was looked to by many outside the Gordons themselves.