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Desire.
10 June, 1891.
[illegible] along [illegible] in his face and upper lip. At
the dance at Bogot Farm Village they had been
a drunken row, and one of the other guests had
fallen on this man and actually bitten him to
and fro into revoltion! The wounded man was
gone into Kingstown in St Vincent for medical
attendance, and his friend had boarded us to
get Aubyn to issue a warrant for the arrest of the
party who had bitten his whole-hom friend. St.
Aubyn calls up the police, I had his officer do it out
while I examined the man (see whether any artery
was bleeding.) I had no means of dressing the wound
correctly.
The scene was a very curious one. On the light of two
dim lamps, the way-fate in pyjama sleeping suit
advancement the oath to the man with the bandaged
face, and around in all positions on the little
deck and against the raffing we standing or
reclining, the two fishermen, the sailors on boat and
the slop. The vents were rising and falling on the house,
and beyond the gleaming of light was nothing but storm
and darkness. The whole scene was wild in the extreme
and I shall never forget it.