MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS. 187 
RETURN OF DEATHS AMONG THE TROOPS OF THH BERMUDAS, 
DURING THE FEVER OF 1853. 






Officers. a nega Men. | Women./Children.| Remarks, 
15 4 | 6 | 297 25 | 24 | Total, 371. 





The above return I obtained from the Fort Adjutant’s 
Office, on the 6th January, 1854. J.LH. 
Curious CIRCUMSTANCE—July 20, 1852. <A Bristol 
Barque, called the “Camcena,” bound from Jamaica to Lon- 
don, with a cargo of sugar, rum, and logwood, was unfortu- 
nately stranded on the reefs of Bermuda, about the beginning 
of last month. A portion of her cargo, together with the 
rigging and materials of the ship, were saved by the island 
boats, and brought into the port of Hamilton. The hull, 
with the remainder of the ship’s cargo, consisting of two 
hundred hogsheads of sugar and some logwood, add under 
water wm the hold, was sold at auction for the sum of fifty- 
one pounds. 
The enterprising purchasers soon discovered that a con- 
siderable portion of each hogshead of sugar had sustained 
little or no injury from the salt water; and this sugar for a 
whole week, they were busily engaged in saving. Curiosity 
led me to examine this shipwrecked sugar. I found it laying 
in bulk, in a warehouse at Hamilton, to the amount of one 
hundred barrels, or perhaps more ; it was not wet, nor could 
the slightest indication of the presence of salt be detected 
by the sense of taste. Indeed, I very much doubt if any 
person, unacquainted with its history, could have distinguish- 
ed this sugar from what was saved from the same vessel, with- 
out having been in contact with the water. 
