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-- Bore pain well -
The blacks showed great fortitude in the
enduring of pain - As an instance of this - An
elderly black named fisherman fell from
a rock on the southern side of the harbour
and broke his leg - It proved to be a compound
fracture of the shin bone - They brought
him across in a bark canoe to our house - They
always came to us for help when sick.
My father sent a messenger to Stroud 24 miles
away - for Dr. Harris - when he arrived he
had Fisherman placed on a table in the
garden and I hung round to watch the
doctor at work - While he was sawing off
a part of the protruding bone the pain
must have been excrutiating but the
patient never uttered a word during the
whole operation - After the leg had been
put in splints - my father, who was a
fair amateur carpenter - made - under the
doctors directions a wooden frame - open
at one side - to hold the leg and keep all
in position - Before leaving the doctor gave strict
instructions that the leg must be kept in
the frame until his next visit - The
next morning on my fathers going to the camp