filarleon

Updated: May 22, 2025

He was one of the survivors of the wrecked steamer Filarleon, and had frozen all the fingers of both hands. Two or three were turnin' gangrenous; an' one of these had got so bad that with his other crippled hand, he had sawed off the decomposin' member with his pocket-knife. One foot also was frozen an' had turned black, but that afterwards recovered." "What did you do for him?" asked the boy.

Francis Rolt-Wheeler - The Boy With the U.S. Census