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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1809. 



Wliilst it raged in the town of 

 Mogo'.lor, a sniall vilhige (Diabet), 

 situated about two miles s.)Uth-east 

 of that place remained uninfected, 

 although the communication was 

 open between tiiern ; on the thirty- 

 fourth day, Iiowever, after its first 

 appearance at Mogodor, this vil- 

 lage was discovered to be infected, 

 and the disorder raged with great 

 violence, making dreadful havoc 

 among the human species for twen- 

 ty-one days, carrying off", during 

 that period, one hundred persons 

 out of one hundred and thirty- 

 three, the original population of the 

 village, before the plague visited 

 it; none died after this, and those 

 who were infected, recovered in the 

 course of a month or two, some 

 losing an eye, or the use of a leg or 

 an arm. 



Many similar circumstances might 

 be here adduced relative to the nu- 

 merous and populous villages dis- 

 persed through the extensive shel- 

 luh province of Haha, all which 

 shared a similar or a worse fate. 

 Travelling through this province, 

 shortly after the plague had ex- 

 hausted itself, I saw many unin- 

 habited ruins, wliich I had before 

 witnessed as flourishing villages; 

 on making inquiry concerning the 

 population of these dismal remains, 

 I was informed that in one village, 

 which contained six hundred inha- 

 bitants, four persons only had 

 escaped the ravage. Other villages 

 which had contained four or five 

 hundred, had only seven or eigiit 

 survivors left to relate the calami- 

 ties they had suffered. Families 

 which had retired to the country 

 to avoid the infection, on return- 

 ing to town, when all infection 

 had apparently ceased, were gene- 

 rally attacked and died ; a singu- 



lar instance of this kind happened 

 at Mogodor, where, after the mor- 

 tality had subsided, a corps of 

 troops arrived from the city of 

 Terodant, in the province of Suse, 

 where the plague had been raging, 

 and had subsided; these troops, 

 after remaining three days at Mo- 

 godor, were attacked with the dis- 

 ease, and it raged exclusively among 

 them for about a month, during 

 which it carried ofiF two thirds of 

 their original number, one hundred 

 men ; during this interval the other 

 inhabitants of the town were ex- 

 empt from the disorder, though 

 these troops were not confined to 

 any particular quarter, many of 

 them having had apartments in the 

 houses of the inhabitants of the 

 town. 



The destruction of the human 

 species in the province of Suse was 

 considerably greater than else- 

 where ; Terodant, formerly the me- 

 tropolis of a kingdom, but now that 

 of Suse, lost, when the infection 

 was at its height, about eight hun- 

 dred each day; the ruined, but 

 still extensive and populous city of 

 Marocco, lost one thousand each 

 day; the populous cities of Old 

 and New Fas diminished in popu- 

 lation twelve or fifteen hundred 

 each day, insomuch that in these 

 extensive cities, the mortality was 

 so great, that the living having not 

 time to bury the dead, the bodies 

 were deposited or thrown altoge- 

 ther, into large holes which, when 

 nearly full, were covered over with 

 earth. Young, healthy, and robust 

 persons of full stamina, were for 

 the most part attacked first, then 

 women and children, and lastly, 

 thin, sickly, emaciated, and old 

 people. 



After this deadly calamity had 

 subsided. 



