Recollections of my life / by Sir Joseph Fayrer.

  • Joseph Fayrer
Date:
1900
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Credit: Recollections of my life / by Sir Joseph Fayrer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    and gained the admiration of the troops by his indifference to danger, when exposed, as he frequently was, to the fire of the enemy. When the thick of the fighting was over, we had got our affairs into better order, and several of our lighter cases had been sent to Amherst. Not very long after this I got the following letter from Colonel Mayhew, the deputy adjutant- general :— Rangoon, May 8, 1852. My dear Fayrer, — An order from Government has been received granting to you and White a staff salary of Rs. 200 a month. I am very sorry the enclosed order [this order was one respecting our services during the capture of Rangoon] was not issued in time to be sent to Montgomerie, who will be very vexed at the omission of your department in the despatches. I trust your having a gazette to yourselves will make up for the disappoint- ment. Everything was done in such a hurry, I am surprised more errors were not made. Such things occur in every despatch that I have ever seen, but they are not the less galling on that account. —Yours sincerel}', W. Mayhew, Dept. Adjt.-Genl. B. F. Force. Of course I was very much pleased at this addition to my pay, and the despatch concerning our services. But I must revert a little. The day of the White House picket I picked up a young Burman—in fact, took him prisoner near the hospital. He was an active, powerful young fellow, and well educated His name was Moung-shwe-gyee. He remained with me during my stay in Burmah as a personal attendant, and accompanied me to Calcutta, where he left me to return to Burmah with Dr Forsyth, who was going there as super- intending surgeon. When in Calcutta he went about to wait on me at dinner-parties, and excited much interest. The Burmese are an active, energetic race, their physique very different in character from that of the natives of India —of the Mongolian or Indo-Chinese type, with long black hair and almost beardless faces. Their colour is a light
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