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have received thorough medical educations ; two- 

 thirds of the patients were under treatment for 

 dysentery, which, from the symptoms and treatment, 

 I am certain is nothing more nor less than Asiatic 

 cholera; the remaining varieties are mostly venereal 

 atfections, which, in this hot climate, assume their 

 most violent and disgusting forms. 



There are a number of Americans here ; some 

 resident ashore, and others from the American vessels 

 in the harbor ; those from the vessels being discharged 

 sick on the consul's hands, wdio provides for them at 

 the hospital until recovered ; he then finds them 

 ships and sends them to the United States. 



Neither of the men who w^ere sent from our ship 

 to the hospital recovered so as to be able to go out 

 with us. One of them, a New Yorker, the former 

 steward of the Europa, anticipates remaining on the 

 island some time ; the other, John Cunningham, of 

 New Bedford, one of our original crew, is left in 

 charge of the consul, to be sent home as soon as the 

 state of his health will permit. Our captain was very- 

 desirous to take this young man home with him for 

 the sake of his widowed mother; but as the invalid 

 objected to going before he was perfectly recovered, 

 and the doctor's authority was paramount to the cap- 

 tain's, we were forced to leave him in a foreign land, 

 in a foreign hospital, amongst strangers, to look out 

 for himself, with the assistance of the consul: a 

 fearful responsibility for a boy of eighteen, unac- 

 quainted with the world. 



There is also another institution for the reception 

 and relief of destitute seamen, known as the Sailor's 

 Home : its accommodations are said to be excellent. 



