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He had now one day at Lucerne, one day at Interlaken and Berne, then London. I was sorry for him in my soul, he was so cruelly tired, so perishingly victorious. 'Why did you do so much? I said. 'Why did you come on foot all down the valley when you could have taken the train? Was it worth it? 'I think so, he said. Yet he was sick with fatigue and over-exhaustion.
I was as sick as a horse, and as wet with blood and sweat as I could be, and many of our men were vomiting with excessive fatigue, over-exhaustion, and sunstroke; our tongues were parched and cracked for water, and our faces blackened with powder and smoke, and our dead and wounded were piled indiscriminately in the trenches.
Some of his men died of beriberi; some were killed or wounded by the Indians; he himself almost died of fever; again and again his whole party was reduced almost to the last extremity by starvation, disease, hardship, and the over-exhaustion due to wearing fatigues.
Rocks and earth came hurtling down from the lofty peaks above us; crash succeeded crash, and flashes of the most intensely vivid lightning dashed before us without intermission, till the air itself seemed on fire, and the faculties of sight and hearing both failed from over-exhaustion of their energies.
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