In any war, more troops die or are incapacitated from infection than from actual wounds on the battlefield.

The Indian seemed but a trifle better, though that came through compression rather than any actual wounds from tooth or talon.

He was very stiff and bruised, as he found on attempting to move about, but he had no actual wounds, and no bones were broken.

"You understand, dear," he was saying, "the actual wounds are going on well.

"Merely scratched-thistime," put in John Silence, speaking for the first time; "suffering more from shock and fright than actual wounds."