hideous audience showed signs of deep feeling and many shed tears at his in coming to visit those who to use their own touching expression were ah m the grave the which follows is from the pen of a gentleman who accompanied the king and visited the hospital on the same occasion in company with two members of the board of health as our party stepped on shore we found the assembled to the number of two or three hundred � there are all told in the settlement � for they had heard in advance of our coming and our ears were greeted with the sound of lively music this proceeded from the band consisting of a drum a and two rather played upon by four young lads whose were horribly marked and with the a visit to the airs with which these poor creatures welcomed the arrival of the party sounded strangely and out of place and harshly upon our feelings and then as we proceeded up the beach and the crowd gathered about us eager and anxious for a recognition or a kind word of greeting � oh the repulsive and sickening and distorted of the human face divine upon which we looked and as they evidently read the ill concealed aversion in our countenances withdrew the half proffered hand and back with hanging heads they felt i ain that they were the of society and must not us with their touch a few cheerful words of inquiry from the physician dr addressed to individuals as to their particular cases broke the embarrassment of this first meeting and soon the crowd were and laughing just like any other crowd of thoughtless and with but few exceptions these unfortunate showed no signs of the settled melancholy that would naturally be looked for from people so hopelessly situated very happy were they when spoken to and quite ready to answer any questions we saw numbers whom we had known in years past and who having disappeared we had thought dead one we had known as a representative and a very intelligent one too in the of on greeting him as an old time acquaintance he observed yes we meet again � in this living grave he is a man of no little consideration among the people being by the board of health with the care of the store which is kept here for the sale of such goods as the people require all do not appear to be who are we saw numbers who might pass along our streets any day without being suspected of the taint they had it however in one way or another sometimes on the only eating away the flesh and the bones of the hands or feet and sometimes only appearing in black and spots on the skin noticed only on a somewhat close examination this last sort is said to be the worst as being most surely fatal and easiest we saw women who had the disease in this stage walking about whom it was difficult to believe were if our were shocked at the sight of the crowd of we had met at the beach walking about in physical strength and activity how shall we describe our sensations in looking upon these creatures in the hospital in whom it was indeed hard to recognise anything human the rooms were kept and well but the atmosphere within was pervaded with the sickening of the grave at each end or lying prone on their respective or were the yet breathing of in the last stages of various forms of the disease who glanced at us for a moment out of their like eyes � those who were not already beyond seeing � and then withdrew within their dreadful selves was there ever a more pitiful sight in one room we saw a sight that will ever remain fixed on the of memory a little haired child apparently three or four s scenes in the hospital old a half caste that looked up at us with an expression of longing to be and loved but alas in its eyes and transparent cheeks were the unmistakable signs of the curse � the sin of the parents visited upon the child in another room was one � a mass of flesh with but little semblance of humanity remaining � who was dying and whose breath came hurried and a few hours at most and his troubles would be over and his happy release arrive there had been fourteen deaths in the settlement during the previous fortnight on the day of our visit there were fifty eight inmates of the hospital though the lifting of the veil of mystery which hangs over the death valley of some of the most features of the curse it is a to know the worst and that the poor in their living grave are not outside the pale of humanity and a judicious all that can be done for them is to encourage their remaining for industry and to smooth as far as is possible the of death the government is doing its best to stamp out the disease and to provide for the comfort of those who are isolated and with the limited means at its disposal has acted with an and humanity worthy of the foremost of countries letter june md often since i finished my last letter has reply to occurred to me is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing for in answer to people who have said i hope nothing will induce you to attempt the ascent of i always said oh dear no i should never dream of it or nothing would persuade me to think of it this morning early mr green came in on his way to to which i was to accompany him and on my casually remarking that i envied him his further journey he at once asked me to 