THE YELLOW FEVER. 191° 
Upon the morning of the day the steamer left New York, on 
which we had engaged our passage out, a gentleman startled us 
a little by announcing that ‘‘ Nassau had got a black eye.” He 
said it had been reported in the States that the yellow fever had 
broken out in Nassau, but that the Governor of the Bahamas and 
the foreign consuls at Nassau had published cards denying the 
truth of the report. Our steamer stopped at Fernandina, and a 
gentleman there told us that a physician, recently from Nassau, 
and then at the Egremont Hotel, in Fernandina, stated that be-- 
fore he left there had been in Nassau two deaths from that dis- 
ease. The steamer City of Austin had then just arrived at Fer- 
nandina from Nassau, and one of its passengers assured us that 
there was not any yellow fever in Nassau when he left. None 
of our passengers were alarmed sufficiently to alter their plans, 
and when upon the day of our arrival in Nassau we entered 
the dining room of the Victoria Hotel, and saw how merry and 
healthy and hungry everybody seemed to be, the last vestige of . 
the yellow fever scare disappeared. For some days no allusion 
was made to “‘ Yellow Jack,” but after a while pretty well authen- 
ticated reports reached us of quite a number of cases of sickness 
and death within the city limits, but outside of the hotel. It 
appears that the disease attacked at first the children of. the 
natives, some twenty or more of whom died. It was said that’ 
it could not be yellow fever, first, because it was confined.to the: 
children, and second, because none but children belonging in 
Nassau had been attacked; whereas unacclimated adults were the 
first to be stricken down when yellow fever prevails. 
After which we learned of a few cases of alarming ‘sickness 
among the visitors from the States and elsewhere, several of which 
resulted in death. One of the latter was the wife of Dr. Aiken. 
She was previously a healthy woman, but the doctor was an in- 
valid. They had been boarding with a Nassau gentleman who 
