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Updated: May 1, 2025
Your missus was took very bad very bad indeed just in the middle of the gale, and there was no one to send for you and so, do you see " "My wife Molly! oh, what has happened, Paul?" exclaimed Freeborn, not waiting for an answer; but springing below, he rushed to the sick-bay, as the hospital is called. The faint cry of an infant reached his ears as he opened the door.
As soon as the ship had been put to rights, those who could be removed were carried to the main-deck, and placed in a part screened off, called the sick-bay. Here Jack had an opportunity of visiting his wounded acquaintance whenever he chose. The man grew weaker and weaker, and seemed indeed to suspect that his own end was approaching.
During the day preceding, it was stated at the mess that our poor mess-mate was run down completely; the surgeon had given him up. The profound quietude of the calm pervaded the entire frigate through all her decks. The watch on duty were dozing on the carronade-slides, far above the sick-bay; and the watch below were fast asleep in their hammocks, on the same deck with the invalid.
I was about to follow to seek for Talbot in the customs shed when a white-faced steward touched my sleeve. Before he spoke his look told me why I was wanted. "The ship's surgeon, sir," he stammered, "asks you please to hurry to the sick-bay. A passenger has shot himself!" On the bed, propped up by pillows, young Talbot, with glazed, shocked eyes, stared at me.
"Mo ses," drawled out `Ugly' slowly, the poor beggar having a difficulty in speaking, caused by the blow I first gave him on the mouth, which accentuated his provincial pronunciation, "Re eeks, zur." "Oh!" ejaculated ship's corporal Brown. "Then, Mr Moses Reeks, you'd better go to the sick-bay and see the doctor."
During the half-hour preceding morning quarters, the Surgeon of a frigate is to be found in the sick-bay, where, after going his rounds among the invalids, he holds a levee for the benefit of all new candidates for the sick-list.
So warm had it been during the day, that the Surgeon himself, when visiting the sick-bay, had entered it in his shirt-sleeves; and so warm was now the night that even in the lofty top I had worn but a loose linen frock and trowsers. But in this subterranean sick-bay, buried in the very bowels of the ship, and at sea cut off from all ventilation, the heat of the night calm was intense.
I was about to follow to seek for Talbot in the customs shed when a white-faced steward touched my sleeve. Before he spoke his look told me why I was wanted. "The ship's surgeon, sir," he stammered, "asks you please to hurry to the sick-bay. A passenger has shot himself!" On the bed, propped up by pillows, young Talbot, with glazed, shocked eyes, stared at me.
As soon, therefore, as I found myself at liberty, I, without delaying even to wait upon Don Luis and Inez, made my way below to the sick-bay, where, in a little corner which had been separated by a screen from the part occupied by the other injured men, lay Merlani in a hammock, with one of my men to attend upon and at the same time stand sentry over him.
"I chewed some seaweed, I think." "Must have been in excellent condition or you'd never have stood it." "What ship?" "Plinlimmon Castle, East Indiaman, homeward bound. This is sick-bay. You're in my charge. Hungry?" "No," and I felt surprised at myself for not being. "I should think not," he laughed. "Been dropping soup and brandy into you every chance we got for twenty-four hours past.
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