Apres avoir passé plusieurs mois entre la vie et la mort, j’entrai enfin en convalescence ; mais j’étais si amaigri et si faible qu’a la suite d’une consultation les médecins déciderent de me renvoyer en Angleterre, sans perdre un instant.
For months my life was despaired of, and when at last I came to myself and became convalescent, I was so weak and emaciated that a medical board determined that not a day should be lost in sending me back to England.