Some of my Hospital Cases--A Death from Jaundice--Small-pox and Typhoid Fever--Hospital Gangrene--Waiting for the Burial Parties--Horrible Depression--I am slightly wounded--Turkish Florence Nightingales--A Ghastly Case--I am powerless for want of Stores--The Men die off like Sheep--Arrival of a Party of English Doctors--A Welcome Visit--Dr. Bond Moore and Dr. Mackellar--Dr. George Stoker Sick--Interview with Osman Pasha--His Reception of the English Doctors--Osman Pasha's Position--The English Doctors indignant--Osman Pasha justified--A Ride to the Krishin Redoubts--The English Doctors under Fire--My Reasons for leaving Plevna--A Farewell Supper--Mustapha Bey and the Whisky--The Departure of the Wounded--Good-bye to Plevna 277 CHAPTER XII. FROM CONSTANTINOPLE TO ERZEROUM. Life in Constantinople--Sir Collingwood Dickson--Visit to the Seraskierat--Roving Englishmen--A Typical Adventurer--War Correspondents--General Berdan--Colonel Valentine Baker--A Picnic on the Gulf of Ismet--On Board H.M.S. _Achilles_--The Turks as Paymasters--A Heavy Fee--Round the _Cafés Chantants_--An Invitation to Erzeroum--Road to Plevna closed--I join the Stafford House Ambulance--A Farewell Banquet--A Voyage in the Black Sea--Trebizond--In the Cradle of Humanity--The Road of Xenophon's Ten Thousand--Lazistan--Dog and Wolf--An Ancient Mining Town--The Valley of Pear Trees--Baiburt--Cross and Crescent in Former Days--A Mountain Road--Genoese Ruins--A Hasty Descent--On the Kopdagh--The Garden of Eden--First Glimpse of the Euphrates--Sir Arnold Kemball--Erzeroum at Last--English Doctors--Mr. Zohrab--Mukhtar Pasha--Organizing our Hospitals--Sunlight and Shadow--A Presage of Trouble 303 CHAPTER XIII. A BELEAGUERED CITY. The Scourge of Typhus--Pyæmia and Pneumonia--Terrible Cold--Outposts frozen to death--Fall of Kars--The March of the Wounded--One Hundred and Eighty Miles over the Snow--Ghastly Effects of Frostbite--The Skeleton Hands--Overcrowding in the Hospitals--Dr. Fetherstonhaugh falls Ill--A Strange Delusion--"After Long Years"--Edmund O'Donovan--A Circassian Dinner Party--Sucking-pig _à l'Irlandaise_--A Novel Target--Departure of Mr. Zohrab--We move into the Consulate--Exodus to Erzinghan--An Awful Sacrifice--Christmas in a Besieged Town--A Remarkable Plum Pudding--Illness of Pinkerton--Funerals in Erzeroum--Casting out the Dead--"The Lean Dogs beneath the Wall"--An Army Surgeon's Death--I fall Sick with Typhus--Heroic Devotion of James Denniston--Some of my Nurses--How I recovered--A Scientific Experiment--The Brain of a Comatose Person--Vachin's Discomfiture 330 CHAPTER XIV. THE SURRENDER OF ERZEROUM.