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410 there were logs to the amount of some hundreds in different states of readiness for embarkation, and the supply for the next general, or any chance, shipment was thus being made ready. The fever with which I had been attacked was of a very dangerous nature; the patient usually recovers or dies within the twenty -four hours. Having got over it, I found myself much debilitated, but in good spirits; which this little excursion greatly tended to promote.

Wednesday, 10th. I fell in company with a trading captain from Jamaica, who said that the yellow fever was raging with a violence almost unprecedented; that many of the officers of his Majesty's ships lying there had been invalided and had leave to go home to England: he mentioned the names of two in particular who had just died, whom I remembered to have seen in Mexico; and he added that there was little chance of any of his Majesty's ships coming down to Honduras for some weeks.