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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    two horses, twenty-four sheep, three goats, several dozen of fowls, with a good many pigeons, rabbits, &e. My own large Indian marquee was in the centre, and around were the small Arab tents, which my Indian servants | had raised for themselves. In another quarter were found all my animals, and a store tent, in which some of the servants nightly kept watch, and made rounds to see that no marauders made incursion upon us; which, however, they did occasionally, carrying off fowls, sheep, &e. Outside the whole I had a high mound thrown up, made from the vegetation on the bank of the river, having only one large gate to my premises. El] Hamed was on the border of the Desert and a sandy plain, but my animals were fed with the grass from the bank of the river, and the grain which my blacks, with two Arab servants, could collect. I can never forget the astonishment of some officers of the English army, old friends who had visited me, on my showing them the extent of my premises. They told me that I brought to their mind the age of the patriarchs of old, with their herds and their flocks, their man-servants and their maid-servants. At Cairo, having initiated my excellent friend Dr. Shapter and Mr. Moss, the purveyor, in the superin- tending duties of the Indian army, and made them acquainted with the mustering and paying of the Doolie train of the army, and in all particulars of the 12
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