r a minute, he turned, nodded
encouragingly to me, and retired.

When he was gone I endeavoured to get a little information out of
Atkins, the attendant, but he briefly informed me that his orders not to
talk to me were imperative, and begged that I would not ask him to
transgress them.

In a short time a basin of some kind of light broth, with a little bread
crumbled into it, made its appearance, the whole of which I demolished,
and soon afterwards fell into a sound sleep.

I awoke again toward evening; was again visited by the doctor, and once
more partook of a tolerably substantial basin of broth and bread. Just
as the light was fading away, Atkins approached my bedside with
something in a wine-glass which he invited me to swallow. I drank it
off, made a wry face at its decidedly nauseous flavour, and soon
afterwards fell asleep.

The next day passed in a very similar manner, except that I remained
awake longer during the day, and as I lay there enjoying the cool
freshness of the breeze and looking out through the jalousies, the
recollection of the events which attended and followed the destruction
of the "Juanita" returned to my memory. From this time my progress
toward recovery was rapid, and at the end of a week I was allowed to sit
up, partially dressed, for an hour or two during the day.

When I had reached this stage I was deemed strong enough to learn the
full particulars of my illness; and I was horrified to find that I had
been for nearly eight months completely out of my mind. It seemed that
the raft had drifted before the wind until--missing Saint Domingo
altogether--it had reached the Windward Channel, where it was fallen in
with by the "Rattler" sloop-of-war; the skipper of which picked us up,
and finding that we were still alive took the greatest care of us,
cracking on until he reached Port Royal. Hawsepipe and the seaman had
sufficiently recovered by that time to be able to narrate all the
circumstances connected with the loss of the schooner; but I was
delirious with brain-fever, and the admiral--who was inexpressibly
shocked at the recital of our sufferings--immediately made arrangements
for my removal to the camp-hospital, that being deemed the spot where I
should be most likely to recover. I had been nursed and attended there
with the utmost assiduity, and the brain-fever eventually left me; but
it left me insane, in which dreadful condition I had remained for nearly
eight months. The