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no Intercourse with the infected places,
escaped the disease. s'Cholesa broke ont
in the Th1rty-lourth regiment on lis
march from Bellary to Bengalorc. All the
Villages on the route were healthy; but In
mediately after all the Villages it passed
through became aGcctcd.- A natIsc soldier,
travelling from Bongalorc to Eundcdroog,
both places then heal hy, passed through the
Thirty-fcurth, was attacked md died. A bri-
gade In perfect health arrived al Naspore7
now an infected place, on the 9TH: on the
sixth the ma!ady broke out among the men
with great mo7talty.; The English army, in
the best Of health, encamped at Zerayt, and
received d detachment in which the
pest had broken out at the pas
sage Of the Jumna. Immediately al
ter the junction the malady appeared
in camp. A company which had lost some
men on its march arrived at Trichinopoly,
then quite healthy; the pest Immediately
broke out among the people and spread to
the enFiroLs. The Fifteenth native regiment
Affected with the cho1cru, marched on Gootz,
The villages through which It passed imme
diatcly became Infected aud desolated by this
scourge, from which the inhabitants had ever
before been exempt" The author saws !:
" The time from the outbreak In Quebec TO
that In Montreal was barely thirty hours.
The distance between Quebec nnd Montreal
Ia about 200 miles, and over this long
distance, thickly Inhabited on both shores Of
the st. Lawrence, cholera made single leap
without Injecting single village or a single
house between the two cEtics-tho honses n1t
nlong the distance not being over two acres
apart" The VoyaGeur made tue trip
Withou. stopping, and infected Montreal where
the mortality was SO great that Dr. Nelson,
the author Of this little volume, was about to
order the burning OF the dead bodies, 80
tardy was the process of burying. Some
time niterward tho following startling fact was
made known: Soon after the Voyngeur had
passed Sorel In is upward passage, feather
bed Ind been thrown overheard. An old
farmer padded his canoe out to It and
brought 1t to his house. In twelve hours he
died Tite the cllolera, and his wife soon fol-
lowed him. At another time the captain of
a raft asked fisherman to carry dead sailor
ashore and bury him. No. KNOWN: any.
thing oi the cholcra, the hoatman complied
md deccntly buried the unknown body. That
same night he died with the pest, aud the
next day his wife died. The captain OF m
American vessel asked an Iudtan to
bury the dead body OF a choleraIc
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