No doubt during the eleven days it had remained in the man's throat the leech had increased in size.

Nevertheless it must have been an animal of considerable size when the man attempted to swallow it.

I send this case as a typical example of the carelessness of natives of the class from which we enlist our Sepoys, as to the nature of the water they drink.

This man had drunk the pea-soup like water of a tank dug in the side of the hill, rather than go a few hundred yards to a spring where the water is perfectly clear and pure.

Though I have not met with another case of leeches being taken with drinking water, I am assured that such cases are occasionally met with about Agra and other towns in the North-West Provinces.