He Went To
See Him, But Said That He Had So Little Medicine, And Expected
To Be So Long On
The coast, that he could do nothing for him,
but that Captain Arthur would take care of him when he
Came down
in the California, which would be in a week or more. I had been
to see Hope the first night after we got into San Diego this last
time, and had frequently since spent the early part of a night in
the oven. I hardly expected, when I left him to go to windward,
to find him alive upon my return. He was certainly as low as he
could well be when I left him, and what would be the effect of the
medicines that I gave him, I hardly then dared to conjecture.
Yet I knew that he must die without them. I was not a little
rejoiced, therefore, and relieved, upon our return, to see him
decidedly better. The medicines were strong, and took hold and
gave a check to the disorder which was destroying him; and, more
than that, they had begun the work of exterminating it. I shall
never forget the gratitude that he expressed. All the Kanakas
attributed his escape solely to my knowledge, and would not be
persuaded that I had not all the secrets of the physical system
open to me and under my control. My medicines, however, were gone,
and no more could be got from the ship, so that his life was left
to hang upon the arrival of the California.
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