CO129-111 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [1-2] — Page 306

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were in her case

that no

neglected; and therefore

blame can be attached to

any

one connected with the selection and

despatching hence of the body of

Emigrants, of whom so

many dead before

they reached their destination.

The only conclusion at which

the Committee can arrive as to the Canse

of the great mortality which occurred

during the

voyage of the Tricolor", is

that it

out of

an

occasioned by the breaking

epidemic, which, if not

actually yellow fever dosely resembled it and which, judging from the Symptoms

as

was very

given by the Master, was

similar

to the disease which at the time the

Semigrants embarked, was saying

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