However, here we are alone. Now I am going to begin."
He cut off the sleeve of the jacket and shirt at the shoulder,
ripped open the seam to the neck, first taking off the rough bandage.
"It's a nasty cut, old man," he said, "but nothing dangerous, I
should say. I fancy it has gone clean through the shoulder bone,
and there is no doubt that it will knit again, as Hassan's did, if
they do but give you time."
He rolled the shirt sleeve into a pad, saturated it with water,
and laid it on the wound.
"You see I know all about it, Dick," he said cheerily, "from having
watched the doctor at work on Hassan. Now I will tear this cloth
into strips."
He first placed a strip of the cloth over the shoulder, crossed
it under the arm, and then took the ends of the bandage across the
chest and back, and tied them under his other arm. He repeated this
process with half a dozen other strips; then he placed Dick's hand
upon his chest, tied some of the other strips together, and bound
them tightly round the arm and body, so that no movement of the
limb was possible. One of the Malay's knelt down and gave him his
assistance, and nodded approvingly when he had finished; then he
helped Harry raise him into a sitting position against the bulwark.
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