Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-08-26
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Richard Burton, the traveller, 81 . lst*oe
to the London Times, gives some paEtiCu-
lars about the climate n Ahina. Here
was his first experience At Fernando Po:
"When landed at Fernando Po, n
September, 1860, Santa Isabel, ths hsrbor
town, was the only settlement Of the new
Spanish colony. Pallid men were to Be
seen sitting languid in their verandahS, or
occasionally crawling about the grassy
streets, each with cigarette hanging 70
the lower lip. Ny lodgings being un.
pleasantly near q military hospital, the
breakfast table was frequently enliSsned
by the spectacle Of something covered
with a blanket being carried in, and
something within dead box being carried
out on four mems shoulders. The Euro
peans died persistently in the dry season
from November till April. After three
years service, out of one hundred and
tifty-tive young picked inesmen, only
forty-seven returned to Spain, the rest
being either invalided or having fallen vic.
Tins to the climate. The rains witnessed
the destruction Of the negro IbrGdos and
the ex.E English colonists. At length, in
March, 1862, yellow fever, the gift Of the
Grand Bonny river, fell upon Us. and in
two months swept of seventy.eight out
of grand total of two hundred and fifty
whites" IN5
On the mountains, however, the climate
was better. %
"Already the fathers Of the Jesuite Ms
sion had built an out. station at Banaps, .
native village about two direct miles from
the harbor, and five hundred feet above
sea-leyel. During the past three years
the principal, y. Padre Campillo, has kept
his health, and he may still be seen work
ing in his garden, as alert and vigorous q
though he had never left the natak sot.'H.
The example of the fathers was followed
by Maj Noeli White. In 1852. when Her
Majesty's ship Griffin, Commander Perry,
touched at this island. two Of her officers,
young and powerful men, were prostrated
by coast fever; they were carried up IN
hammocks to Major Whites lumber cot
tages at Banapa, and in less than week
they walked down the hill convalescents.
As Banapa abounds in sand.aies and
wants level ground, d. Pellon, an en-
ployee of the Woods and Forests, preferred
higher site, where he also built for him
self a bungalow Of boarding at place
which he Justly called 'Bnena Vista. =,
The inference is. that at Fernando Po
folks who object to dying must live at least
five hundred feet above the sea level.
Similar facts are related in regard TO
India. In notice Of Colonel Walter
Campbelrs lately published "Indian Jour
nal" the London Reuieso says:
Everybody knows that the plains OF
Southern India are brooded over by an
atmosphere half vapor, half fire, in which
Europeans wither away till they look like
the ghosts of their former selves. In the
midst, however, of this torrid region arises
system of mountains equal in elevation
to the lower Alps, which, from the hues
they present when contemplated from be-
low, have been called Blue Heights. To
these you ascend through CHATS or passes,
five or six thousand feet high, which open
at the upper end into delightful coun-
try, inferior for beauty to none in the East
save Kashmer, and for salubrity far supe-
rior to even that. The air is cool and re-
freshing; hoar frosts are beheld in the
morning, and biting winds sometimes
blow along the submits of the mountains.
Here, then, the weary civilian, or more
weary officer, soon RECEIVERS his appetite
and his good looks, especially as there Is
little or nothing to do, even for those who
are supposed to be there on business"