text:  I knew that he was my deliverer; that he had saved my life when my mustang raging with thirst had sprung head-foremost into the water; that without him I must inevitably have been drowned even had the river been less deep than it was; and that it was by his care and the whisky he had made me swallow and of which I still felt the flavour on my tongue that I had been recovered from the death-like swoon into which I had fallen