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Chapter three. Second Attack |
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called to Chingjaroi for medical help |
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We were to have halted at Kharasom; but at noon on our first rest-day, when the camp was festooned with washing and all the porters dispersed up the village, in came the Chingjaroi headmen to say that there was an urgent case there and they needed help at once. Then ensued fearful confusion, but we were packed and off in an hour and half-running, half-walking the eight miles, reached the familiar camp in the early dusk. We now discovered what no one had thought to say before, that the patient lived in the Christian village, two miles further on; so leaving the rest of the party to settle in, the compounder and I and Chinaorang with the jappa pushed on down the spur. |
