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OPERATIONS CARRIED OX AT GIZEII.
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limbs warm; but I concluded, that having fallen from
sucb a height, be must necessarily have received some
dreadful injury in bis bead, and I would not, therefore,
allow it to be toucbed. I directed Mr. Hill to set off
with Mr. Mash for Cairo, without a moment's delay, and
to return as soon as possible with the best medical advice
that could be procured. Not long after they were gone,
I happened to turn round and saw the boy open bis eyes,
and close them again as soon as be observed that I per-
ceived it; and upon turning suddenly round a second
time, he was looking at, and talking to, the man seated
near him ; but upon finding himself watched, he resumed
bis former listless position. I immediately sent after Mr.
Hill, to say that medical aid was not required; and I
ordered the man to be told that he might attend upon the
boy if he chose, but that he would not be paid for doing
so. He said, that in that case he should go and take with
him the boy; who also expressed a desire to return to
his village. I accordingly consented, and the Arab made
preparations to carry the boy down the hill, which I
would not allow, when the boy immediately got up and
Walked down without the smallest difficulty. The Arab
then carried him across the plain; and having laid him
down on the ground, went on to the village, and returned
with a crowd of people, who took the boy home with
shouts and lamentations. Both the man and the boy
returned on the 17th (Monday) in perfect health, and
applied for a bakshish, — I need not add, without success.
It was afterwards ascertained that the boy bad been
seated on a ledge of rock at the bottom of the upper shaft,
■where he was employed to haul on a pulley, and that the
tackle having broken, be had fallen down about two feet,
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limbs warm; but I concluded, that having fallen from
sucb a height, be must necessarily have received some
dreadful injury in bis bead, and I would not, therefore,
allow it to be toucbed. I directed Mr. Hill to set off
with Mr. Mash for Cairo, without a moment's delay, and
to return as soon as possible with the best medical advice
that could be procured. Not long after they were gone,
I happened to turn round and saw the boy open bis eyes,
and close them again as soon as be observed that I per-
ceived it; and upon turning suddenly round a second
time, he was looking at, and talking to, the man seated
near him ; but upon finding himself watched, he resumed
bis former listless position. I immediately sent after Mr.
Hill, to say that medical aid was not required; and I
ordered the man to be told that he might attend upon the
boy if he chose, but that he would not be paid for doing
so. He said, that in that case he should go and take with
him the boy; who also expressed a desire to return to
his village. I accordingly consented, and the Arab made
preparations to carry the boy down the hill, which I
would not allow, when the boy immediately got up and
Walked down without the smallest difficulty. The Arab
then carried him across the plain; and having laid him
down on the ground, went on to the village, and returned
with a crowd of people, who took the boy home with
shouts and lamentations. Both the man and the boy
returned on the 17th (Monday) in perfect health, and
applied for a bakshish, — I need not add, without success.
It was afterwards ascertained that the boy bad been
seated on a ledge of rock at the bottom of the upper shaft,
■where he was employed to haul on a pulley, and that the
tackle having broken, be had fallen down about two feet,