CHAPTEE V
Convalescence—I become revolutionary—Our gilded youth— Peace—A painful day—From Sassebo to Ninoshima—The manifesto of August 6—Talk and comment—Peace concluded—Disappointment and riots in Japan—Departure of the prisoners on board the Yenkai-Maru.
Those only to whose lot it has fallen to live through a heavy and dangerous illness, and one made worse by incessant pain, will be able to understand fully my experiences of the subsequent few weeks. I felt, or at least I thought I did, how, with every hour, the ebbed tide of strength and health was steadily coming in again, filling the gaping hollows, bringing out the colour in the sallow, morbid complexion, and life into the lustreless, sunken eyes. . . . And how anxiously and painstakingly I followed all the doctor's prescriptions concerning the gradual extension of the time of my constitutionals, watching the working of my leg, and training it to obey my will—to keep within even tracks, to make no " sallies"
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