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92 vigorous attempts to escape. But he was burnt to ashes. The Blacks believe that his spirit still animates the giant goat-sucker, and it is still known by his name.

Gloucester.

In Hall's Chronicle, Vlth year Henry VIII. (p. 568), it is recorded that Prior John, a great captain in the French navy, raided the village of Helmston in Sussex. But an alarm was raised and the French were pursued by English archers, who wounded many of the sailors, and Prior John was shot in the face with an arrow, and was in evil case. "Therefore he offered his image of wax before Our Lady at Bolleyn with the English arrow in the face for a miracle." It would be interesting to know if the arrow referred to was preserved any length of time in the church at Boulogne.

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. . . The patients are brought to hospital often after many days' journey in carts drawn by an ox and a mule yoked together, or in a round basket hung on poles. A sad feature of the work is the fact that they so often refuse operation, as their religion forbids maiming or mutilation. The conditions under which doctors are obliged to operate, owing to deep-rooted suspicion, sound quite amazing. Sometimes baths can be given before operation, but usually local cleansing of parts is all that can be achieved. Two or more friends must always be present during operation to prevent foul play, and all parts removed, whether limbs or internal organs, have to be restored to the patients or their friends, in case the "foreign doctors" should make medicine from such broken bits of humanity. ...


 * From an address by Dr. Norah L. Bryson to the Nurses' Missionary League, reported in The Nursing Times, Feb. 24, 1912.