BIOGRAPHY, 

 much aloof, that they cannot be seen without the aid of a 



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telescope, out n aternm was tonnnase lamigii ID aee tne 

 whole colony on the move, they being forced to leave their 

 quarters by a change of wind. He founto! between fifty 

 and sixty of them, some having young on their backs. 



After staying for more than a year in Malaga, and 

 having apparently in the meantime acquired the Spanish 

 language,, of which be was totally ignorant when be en- 

 tered Cadiz, but in which he was afterwards a proficient, 

 be projected a visit to Malta, but was checked by a ter- 

 rible obstacle. This was the -Uack-vomit," which broke 

 out with irresistible formy atTM? an p at> ^*^ with cholera and 

 yellow fever. 



The population died by thousands, and so many were 

 the victims of these diseases that graves could not be dug 

 to keep pace with tne mortality. Large pits 

 like our plague-pits and* as they could 

 the coffins, the bodies of the dead were 

 into the pits. An uncle of TTatertan 

 died of the disease, his body was taken out of its coffin 

 and thrown into the pit, and just beneath him lay the 

 body of a Spanish marquis. Xo less than fourteen toon- 

 sand people died in Malaga, notwithstanding that fifty 



with the black-vomit, but, although it was thought that 

 he could not Mve until die following day, his gr 

 of cxmstitution, aided by hB simple mode of fife, enabled 

 him to conquer in the struggle. As if to add to the terrors 



to leave a spot 

 which had been stricken with such plagues, and among 

 them was Waterloo. But the authorities had mean- 

 while kid an embargo on tne shaping, and it was next to 



