It was cold by this time, and my arm was
rather stiff and I was tired; I hauled myself up on board the
CAROLINE by a rope and found H- and two men on board. All the rest
were trying to get the shore end on shore, but had failed and
apparently had stuck on shore, and the waves were getting up. We
had anchored in the right place and next morning we hoped the shore
end would be laid, so we had only to go back. It was of course
still colder and quite night. I went to bed and hoped to sleep,
but, alas, the rheumatism got into the joints and caused me
terrible pain so that I could not sleep. I bore it as long as I
could in order to disturb no one, for all were tired; but at last I
could bear it no longer and managed to wake the steward and got a
mustard poultice which took the pain from the shoulder; but then
the elbow got very bad, and I had to call the second steward and
get a second poultice, and then it was daylight, and I felt very
ill and feverish. The sea was now rather rough - too rough rather
for small boats, but luckily a sort of thing called a scoot came
out, and we got on board her with some trouble, and got on shore
after a good tossing about which made us all sea-sick.
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