Volume 3

The autobiography and services of Sir James McGrigor : bart., late Director-General of the Army Medical Department, with an appendix of notes and original correspondence / [James McGrigor].

  • Sir James McGrigor, 1st Baronet
Date:
1861
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Credit: The autobiography and services of Sir James McGrigor : bart., late Director-General of the Army Medical Department, with an appendix of notes and original correspondence / [James McGrigor]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    all this seemed to be a very unnecessary proceeding to my Connaught Ranger friends. S bediay coming down the Nile, although on embarking I was in a state of extreme debility, I was happy to find that I daily gained strength. My appetite became good, I felt returning health, and I enjoyed the merriment and jokes of the soldiers my companions in the djerm. On arriving at Rosetta, I found the 88th and other regiments of the Indian army encamped at E] Hamed, within two miles of Rosetta, and but a little distance from the Nile. In a few days after my arrival on the ground of encampment, my servants, horses and camels, reached the ground, and likewise the whole of my _stock, which I now began to add to; for sheep, fowls, rabbits, &c., were to be had cheap and in abundance. Much had been said by our brethren of the King’s army from England, whom we here met, of the luxury in which the Indian army had traversed the desert ; and ~ not without reason. They jeered us much, and called us the army of Darius; for besides many articles of apparel, and other things, which were unknown in | the English army, several officers carried with them a stock of wine, such as hock, claret, &c., besides various luxuries for the table. I had not been long encamped at El Hamed before I made myself very comfortable. I had upwards of a dozen Indian servants with their wives, besides my English soldier servant; and for my stock, three camels,
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