Catharine Leslie Hobson, lady-nurse, Crimean war, and her life / by W.F. Hobson.

  • Hobson, W. F.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Catharine Leslie Hobson, lady-nurse, Crimean war, and her life / by W.F. Hobson. 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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    land. We remained at Avignon next night, having landed at Valence. The cathedral at the former place is worth seeing. I went to the early service, 'while it was yet dark,' and then went on to Mar- seilles, where we remained two days ; it is a nice place, not equal to Lyons. My voyage (thence) was something to remember. I was very ill, and the weather was terrific : one night our skylights were washed away and the sea broke over us, and of course filled the deck and flooded the cabins, filling the beds and deluging the occupants ; I never, never shall forget the scene: the poor nuns, almost in a state of nudity, called wildly to the men, who, in like apparel, were wandering about, to come and help them bale out the water from their beds; others calling on children, or on husbands ; some thinking only of self, and all screaming most wildly, while the water, up to our knees, carried everything before it, fruit, railway-rugs, figs, oranges, stockings, basins, in short everything moveable. The whole set, in their terror, seemed, to forget that the God who holds the water in the hollow of His hand was as near to them as when upon the Eastern waters He arose and rebuked the wind and the sea, saying, 6 Peace be still.' / am no coward [Editor's italics], therefore I was able to look on and wonder, ready