Dysentery

water colour, Kennington, 182 x 129 mm

'Dysentery. Chap. XXXII' typeset brc of page, over-printed in white on black border. Bottom left, figure in torment among rocks in a foreground which is a turmoil of browns and yellows and greens, with a huge black wave bearing down, and a red, green and yellow sky beyond.

p 160 [tr ed p 180] - 'Dysentery of this Arabian coast sort used to fall like a hammer blow, and crush its victims for a few hours, after which the extreme effects passed off; but it left men curiously tired, and subject for some weeks to sudden breaks of nerve.'

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