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with cholera ; others with black vomit, and others of 

 decided yellow fever. There were a few instances 

 of some who departed this life with very little pain, 

 or bad symptoms. They felt unwell ; they went to 

 bed; they had an idea that they would not get 

 better, and they expired in a kind of slumber. It 

 was sad in the extreme to see the bodies placed in 

 the streets at the close of day, to be ready for the 

 dead-carts as they passed along. 



" Plurima perque vias, sternuntur inertia passim 

 Corpora." 



The dogs howled fearfully during the night. All 

 was gloom and horror in every street ; and you 

 might see the vultures on the strand tugging at the 

 bodies which were washed ashore by the eastern 

 wind. It was always said that 50,000 people left 

 the city at the commencemement of the pestilence ; 

 and that 14,000 of those who remained in it fell 

 victims to the disease. 



There was an intrigue going on at court, for the 

 interest of certain powerful people, to keep the port 

 of Malaga closed, long after the city had been de- 

 clared free from the disorder ; so that none of the 

 vessels in the mole could obtain permission to depart 

 for their destination. 



In the mean time the city was shaken with earth- 

 quakes ; shock succeeding shock, till we all imagined 

 that a catastrophe awaited us similar to that which 

 had taken place at Lisbon. The pestilence killed 

 you by degrees ; and its approaches were sufficiently 

 slow, in general, to enable you to submit to it with 

 firmness and resignation. But the idea of being 



