196 ISLES OF SUMilEE. 



Our ship was very much crowded, and some passengers slept 

 upon the floor of the main saloon, but being favored by pleasant 

 weather, and no pestilential or other diseases having made their 

 appearance, little inconvenience was experienced. We ought not, 

 perhaps, to omit one instance of sickness which occurred on 

 board, and was said to have occasioned at first some uneasiness. 

 The sick man was employed upon the steamer, and a physician, 

 after looking him over, and making a thorough diagnosis of his 

 case, reported that his patient had only an attack of '^ whiskey 

 fever," and that he would be all right in the morning. 



As we made our way up the beautiful harbor of New York in 

 the early morning of a charming day, and felt the thrilling and 

 exquisite pleasure incident to a safe return to our native shores, 

 we almost forgot that a malignant disease had recently thrown 

 unpleasant occasional shadows over us upon one of the isles of 

 summer, and had almost brushed against us Avitli the hem of its 

 garment as it passed by. 



Mr. Phelps has written us that he has, since his return, received 

 letters from Nassau, and his mother has entertained several per- 

 sons Avho reside in Nassau, at her house in Vermont ; that his 

 Nassau corespondents stated that at the time of their writing, 

 the yellow fever prevailed extensively in ISiassau, and that it 

 had occasioned many deaths; that the wife and two children of 

 the Wesleyan minister at Nassau, Major Simpson and two of 

 his children, and a lady visitor from Ontario, Canada, were 

 numbered among its victims. Also, that the local physicians 

 there now admit that Mr. Phelps had " the genuine yellow 

 fever." 



Another gentleman, whose sources of information through 

 correspondents in Nassau are at least equally good, though less 

 disinterested, writes us as follows: ''The fever has shown itself 

 spasmodically at Nassau this summer^ but to very little extent. 



