He judged the Creoles honest but lazy and illeducated, their town ugly and filthy though his horror at the city's sanitation was understandable; he would lose two wives to yellow fever in New Orleans.
His wives didn't die but they're very old now.
mnli hypothesis: His wives didn't die but they're very old now. premise: He judged the Creoles honest but lazy and illeducated, their town ugly and filthy though his horror at the city's sanitation was understandable; he would lose two wives to yellow fever in New Orleans.