Morning journal and courier., 1880-04-03
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de Trident; he ken tell you about her; he sailed with Samson when der Trident was first built; he's consigned to Samson-surei" !" He was not long in finding us, and with &
 hearty shake of the hands interlarded his speech of welcome with those graceful, court
 ly airs and diplomatic phrases which, un-
 studied, he knows so well how to employ.
 Seizing our bundles he escorted us to the best
 and largest carriage at the landing and loaded
 us up. Soon man appeared who claimed
 ours was his carriage, and that from the bows
 Of the steamer he had engaged it before any one had chance to put foot on the dock, and had put his bundles in 1t while he went for the othsr members of his party. ''Can't help dat" said Sampson; ''dis carriage be- longs to dis gentleman-why, he spoke for dis carriage las year! Driver, you take dis gentleman and desc yere ladies to der hotep' and he did so before we had fully time to consider and decide the doubtful question of our right to keep possession of the vehicle.
 Before leaving New York we were told that Nassau had got black eye;" that s'a yellow fever scare" had kept many persons from wis., iting the Bahamas, notwithstanding the cards to the contrary which had been published, signed by the Governor of the Bahamas and other officials, and by the foreign consuls. At Fernandina we were assured that there was @
 physician then at the Mansion House who left Nassau a week or two before our arrival
 who had affirmed that there had been cases of sickness at Nassau accompanied by the black
 vomit, but that the local physicians would not
 admit the existence of yellow fever But we
 did not scare very well, and after inquiring of
 some of the passengers in the Austin, which
 had just arrived, we concluded that we could
 with safety complete our voyage. Large ad- ditions were made to our list of passengers
 in Florida, so that VIC greatly surprised the people of Nassau by landing from the Texas seventy passengers The dining saloon at 2 o'clock presented scene we'll cal culated to remove any vestiges of the yellow fever scare that might have remained in any timid minds. Every table was filed and with that keen relish which 8 strong and healthy appetite confers, most ample justice was done to our landlords elaborate bill of fare. The yellow fever certainly does not prevail here as an epidemic, but it is not only possible, but think it very probable, there may have been case or two of that disease here this season, as there is said to be every winter cases of it in Havana. The typhoid fever which we left behind us is deemed by some more to be dreaded than the yellow fever, when the latter does not become a prevailing pestllence. It runs it's course very quickly, and the patient rallies rapidly when the fever leaves him. Your correspondent broke upan incipient fever of some kind a few nights since in less than two hours, without a doctor, by means Of some champagne and six grains of quinine, preceded by a little tincture of rhubarb. In May last he accomplished the same result on the Columbia river in Florida with four grains of quinine. In these warm countries, it is claimed that disease yields to medicine much more readily than at the North. My limited experience corroborates this opinion Several years since, when the business of blockade running was at it's height and Nassau was crowded, being whirpool of excitement, dissipation and crime, yell low fever pestilenoe prevailed here, but nothing but persistent violation of sanitary laws can prevent Nassau from being in the future what it has generally been in the past, great win ter sanitarium. But there is not healing balm in it's warm air for all. Visitors often carry back with them disappointed hopes. It is so in Florida, it is so in Colorado, it is so at all medcated springs and health resorts. And yet Nassau has much to recommend it, and is worthy of it's long established reputation as place of rest for the weary and of re- covery for the sick. Reposing in the lap of the trade winds, destitute of lofty and cold mountain peaks and ranges, and shielded from the north and northwest by the waters of the Gulf Stream, all who resort to it are assured pleasant and wonderfully uniform summer air, as free from disease and as well medicated as any to be found in the western world. O.I