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But they do say, in the sick-bay, as how Mr Rattlin isn't himself, but that Joshua Daunton is he, and that he is nobody at all whatsomever; though Gibbons says, and he's a cute one, that if Mr Rattlin is not Mr Rattlin, seeing as how Joshua Daunton is Mr Rattlin, Mr Rattlin must be somebody else and as a secret, he told me, as like as not, he must be Joshua Daunton." "Well, here's comfort again.
Though what a hospital is, aboard an air-liner, blest if I know!" "Sick-bay, we'll call it. Problems rising already. A stowaway rather odd, I must say. Still, as a problem, it's not hard to solve. Nothing simpler than dropping a man overboard." "You surely, you wouldn't do that!" ejaculated the major, startled. His rubicund face grew round with amazement. "That remains to be seen.
"He's just the regulation, sir," he said, after inspecting the measure. "Thirty-one inches, sir, exactly." The doctor looked at Reeks's papers again. "Ah, yes, all right, his age is under sixteen, I see," said he. "Just test his height, Trimmens." The sick-bay steward took Reeks to the bulkhead opposite, where was a standard for measurement, the same as they keep in barrack-rooms.
A curious frame-work of wood was made for the maimed man; and placed in this, with all his limbs stretched out, Baldy lay flat on the floor of the Sick-bay, for many weeks.
The cholera had been making sad ravages among her crew, as well as on board other ships of the fleet, but, strange to say, not an officer had been attacked. Hearing that Murray was below in the sick-bay, he sought him there, and found him, with two lieutenants, assisting the surgeons in attending to the sufferers, of whom there were at least thirty in various stages of the disease.
When I recovered consciousness I found myself in my hammock, in the sick-bay aboard the frigate, with a number of companions in misfortune around me.
Sam Smatch now acted the part of a good Samaritan towards him. He got him up on the lower-deck, and then went and called the doctor, and said that he had found him bruised all over and apparently out of his wits. The doctor ordered him to be put into a hammock in the sick-bay. Sam, however, first got him washed and cleaned, and gave him some food, which considerably revived him.
A certain group had gradually formed about us, for the wreck was still a matter of interest; and at this, one of the bystanders, a rough seafaring man, spoke suddenly. "I guess the mate won't be gone," said he. "He's main sick; never left the sick-bay aboard the Tempest; so they tell ME." Jim took me by the sleeve. "Back to the consulate," said he.
But in order to prepare for its narration, some account of a part of the ship called the "sick-bay" must needs be presented. The "sick-bay" is that part of a man-of-war where the invalid seamen are placed; in many respects it answers to a public hospital ashore. As with most frigates, the sick-bay of the Neversink was on the berth-deck the third deck from above.
It showed what must have been the state of things in the dhow, where there was no room to portion them off, neither would the lazy Arab disturb himself to see justice done to each. The sick were cared for by the doctor and his attentive sick-bay man, assisted by all the officers.
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