242 THE CEUISE OF THE ' CUBAQOA.' 



unwholesome. Intermittent fever, or fever and ague, is 

 prevalent, at which I am not at all surprised after seeing the 

 natives, who accompanied us, shivering in the rain. The 

 soil is everywhere of a marvellous fertility, and the vegeta- 

 tion most luxuriant. 



It was in this island that Bishop Patteson had a year 

 before interred the two young men who died of the wounds 

 received in the island of Santa Cruz, to whom I have referred 

 in the chapter on Norfolk Island 



