CHAPTER XXXIV
An epidemic Fever rages among us--we abandon our Conquests--I am
seized with Distemper--write a Petition to the Captain, which is
rejected--I am in danger of Suffocation through the Malice of Crampley,
and relieved by a Serjeant--my Fever increases--the Chaplain wants
to confess me--I obtain a favourable Crisis-Morgan's Affection
for me proved--the Behaviour of Mackshane and Crampley towards
me--Captain Oakum is removed into another Ship with his beloved
Doctor--our new Captain described--An Adventure of Morgan
The change of the atmosphere, occasioned by this phenomenon, conspired,
with the stench that surrounded us, the heat of the climate, our
own constitutions, impoverished by bad provisions, and our despair,
to introduce the bilious fever among us, which raged with such
violence, that three-fourths of those whom it invaded died in a
deplorable manner; the colour of their skin being, by the extreme
putrefaction of the juices, changed into that of soot.
Our conductors, finding things in this situation, perceived
it was high to relinquish our conquests, and this we did, after
having rendered their artillery useless, and blown up their walls
with gunpowder.
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