196 ISLES OF SUMMER. 
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 wasexperienced. 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 with 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 who 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 Nassau, 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. 
