Nick and his father sit in the rowboat with sterns in the dark on the way to the Indian Camp, together with Uncle George and the Indians, who Uncle offers cigars. They are going to the Camp to help an Indian woman, who has difficulty by giving birth.
Nick’s father is a doctor and he has to do an operation on the woman, who is lying in the lower bunk and scream in a shanty, she has labour. The woman is in a lot of pain and her husband cannot help her. The indian woman had bit Uncle George`s arm during the operation and Nick`s father put some peroxide on the wound, while he was doing this he was elated and began branging to Uncle George. The only instrument Nick’s father has is a ‘jack-knife’ and nine feet of tapered gut leaders. He does not have any anaesthetics with him. The caesarean operation goes well, but the husband in the upper bunker has committed suicide.
Afterwards on the trip back from the Camp in the rowboat, Nick asks his father a lot of questions about this experience, and his father tries to answer him, nevertheless he is having a hard time doing that.
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