dysentery. The Cornwalls seemed to have suffered almost as heavily
in proportion as the Highlanders, and it was to me no small
privilege to be permitted to speak a word of Christian solace and
good cheer to men from my own county.


=The Wounded Canadians.=

'But I was struck most of all by the number of noble-looking
Canadians among this big batch of wounded soldiers, all of them
proudly glorying in being permitted to serve and suffer in the name
of so great a Queen and in defence of so glorious an Empire. Among
them I found Colour-Sergeant Thompson, the son of one of our
American Methodist ministers, Rev. James Thompson. Resting against
the inner side of a waggon-wheel was a most gentlemanly Canadian,
shot through the throat, and quite unable to swallow any solids. To
him, as to several others, I was privileged to carry a large cup of
life-renewing milk. Lying on another waggon was a middle-aged
Canadian, shot through the mouth, and apparently unable at present
to swallow anything without pain; but he begged me, if possible, to
buy for him some cigarettes, that he might have the solace of a
smoke. But there is nothing of any kind on sale within miles of
this camp. Yet the cigarette, however, was not long sought in vain;
and a word of Christian greeting was made none the less welcome by
the gift. Lying by this man's side was a wounded French-Canadian,
who could scarcely speak in English, but had come from far to
defend the Empire which claimed him also as its loyal son; and yet
another sufferer told me that he had come from Vancouver, a
distance of 11,000 miles, to risk, or, if needs be, to lay down his
life for her who is his Queen as well as ours. As in the name of