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plaining slightly and some of them jist dying. The sich were all swelled as if by dropsy before death. The surgeon attended to them and sometimes administered medicine

a

three times daily. The ship lay

at Quarantine for

fortnight at Havannah before any of the passengers thereafter we lay three weeks at Havannah. I think 14 of the Crew died on the passage to

were landed and

Clyde. I am a Lascar and have been at sea for 6 or 7 years but cannot speak English very fluently. This is truth & I cannot write

Index

John Macelvain:

John Cameron

David Elder Barclay. 9.

Edwin Hanby

1.

Alles Left

13.

William Croll or

Alfut

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