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 128 DEFINITIVE CONQUEST OF 'THE QUARRIES.' CHAP, pened, though not till after the fight, that the ! — very two officers whom we saw taking a foremost part in the desperate 'show of resistance' were both made to suffer the penalty of working too hard and too long. The fatigue (with a load of coion.i anxiety) which the chief, Colonel Campbell, en- Campbcll J ' dured on that night of the 7th of June was so great that even five weeks afterwards he had not recovered from the overstrain put on his energies* The other example was that of a man but twenty - captain one years of aire. Although Captain Wolseley Wulselcy. J ° °. . had been engaged on active duty incessantly since the morning of the 7th, his power of exertion continued until the victory had been definitively won. ( 6 ) Then Nature gave way. Unable to stand, he fell helpless among the slain ; and.. when lifted up, by the strength of others, stood only to fall again. Tie was conscious, and could speak, but only in a very faint whisper. We find a clue to the nature of his ailment by learning what cured it. Some twenty-four hours of sleep restored to him full life and health. It was not without submitting to painful sacri- fices that our people achieved this hard conquest, a conquest of what — measured strictly — was only a ribbon of ground, but still one that helped on the siege.
 * See hia despatch of 13th July 1855 to Sir James Simpson.