SHIP FEVER IN 1847. 13 



middle of Jane, 1847, with ship fever aboard. She had I should 

 say about 250 passengers. I do not know how many died. I was 

 a l)oy working for Hon. Joseph Cunard at the time, and he used 

 to send me down with several large tin cans of milk for them 

 every morning I used to drive down opposite the Island, and 

 tliey came over in a boat to get the milk Somerimes I used to go 

 back with the boat to the Island to see the people that were sick. 

 The Bollivar's passengers were not allowed to mix with those of 

 the Loostock. The Bollivar was three weeks or more in quaran- 

 tine, and then was fumigated and towed away. Five of us went 

 down one night to steal Miss Vondy (now Mrs. Hawbolt) out of 

 quarantine, but the guard took us and we had to stay there. I 

 hel])ed to make the beds for the Loostock "s passengers These 

 were just pranks laid on the ground, with one plank on edge be- 

 tween each bed and the next. I saw fifteen of the Loostock's pas- 

 sengers buried in one square hole. They had canvas wrapped 

 around them up to the neck, and were then laid in the grave. 

 Five years after Cunard's horses were pasturing on the Island, 

 and I went down to bring them up. One of them in galloping 

 across the Island, put his foot down into one of the graves, and in 

 ])ulling it out brought up a Glengarry cap full of human hair. So 



the graves were not deep." 



Jno Brown. 



In digging for the sewer pipe for one of the ho-pitals the men 

 came on a pile of human bones, which were put together and re- 

 buried. Thus only by accident will we ever know where tl ese 

 unfortunates were buried. 



Alter this time we had no ship fever till 1899, when the bark 

 Lilly, Cai)t. Olsen, from Para, Brazil, came in. The following is 

 what I have gleaned in reference to her : 

 > 



STATEMENT OF HARRY BROBECKER, NURSE, WHO AT- 

 TENDED THE MEN ON MIDDLE ISLAND WHO WERE 

 LANDED FROM BARK LILLY. 



"I was sent for to go to Middle Island to nurse the men that 

 wpre sick and placed on the Island in quarantine. There were 

 three of them. Two recovered and one died. I do not remember 

 the vear. but I think the month was June. The captain's name 



