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RETtJKN OF DEATHS AMONG THE TROOPS OP THE BERMUDAS, 

 DUEDIG THE PEVEB OF 1853. 



The above return I obtained from tbe Fort Adjutant's 

 Office, on the 6th January, 1854. J.L.H. 



CuEiops CiECUMSTANCE. — July 20, 1852. A Bristol 

 Barque, called the " Camoena," bound from Jamaica to Lon- 

 don, with a cargo of sugar, rum, and logwood, was unfortu- 

 nately stranded on the reefs of Bermuda, about the beginning 

 of last month. A portion of her cargo, together with the 

 rigging and materials of the ship, were saved by the island 

 boats, and brought into the port of Hamilton. The huU, 

 with the remainder of the ship's cargo, consisting of two 

 hundred hogsheads of sugar and some logwood, all under 

 water in the hold, was sold at auction for the sum of fifty- 

 one pounds. 



The enterprising purchasers soon discovered that a con- 

 siderable portion of each hogshead of sugar had sustained 

 ^ little or no injury from the salt water ; and this sugar for a 

 whole week, they were busily' engaged in saving. Curiosity 

 led me to examine this shipwrecked sugar. I found it laying 

 in bulk, in a warehouse at Hamilton, to the amount of one 

 hundred barrels, or perhaps more ; it was not wet, nor could 

 the slightest indication of the presence of salt be detected 

 by the sense of taste. Indeed, I very much doubt if any 

 person, unacquainted with its history, could have distinguish- 

 ed this sugar from what was saved from the same vessel, with- 

 out having been in contact with the water. 



