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patient's house. After this, we felt we could 

 only await developments. 



The Lazaretto doctor succeeded in escaping 

 the fury of the mob, which would have made 

 short work of him. His house in the town 

 was attacked, and there was some shooting by 

 the police who defended it, happily without 

 fatal result. An attack on the prison in which 

 a few of the rioters who were arrested were 

 lodged was not pressed home, and failed. But 

 the authorities were now practically powerless ; 

 the town was quite out of hand, and a portion 

 of the garrison being implicated, it could not be 

 depended on. As soon as the news reached 

 Lisbon the Government acted with commend- 

 able promptitude. The smart cruiser Dom 

 Carlos was at once dispatched ; and when thirty 

 hours later, having made the fastest passage on 

 record, she steamed into the port, the cause 

 of law and order was saved. The Lazaretto 

 doctor found his way on board, it was said, 

 disguised as an old woman. His name is still 

 execrated here, and probably even now his life 

 would not be safe. 



But the sanitary situation now looked very 

 serious. Sick persons had been withdrawn 



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