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forty-eight hours after was a lifeless corpse. The sud- 

 denness of this catastrophe produced such an effect on 

 Mr. Shannon, as to disturb his mental faculties. He 

 became delirious, was seized with the fever, and, in 

 like manner, fell a victim two days after he was at- 

 tacked. I will leave the reader to conceive the dis- 

 tress, the grief, the despair of Mrs. Shannon, when she 

 found herself, in the short space of three or four days, 

 bereaved of the two objects dearest to her in life. I 

 will leave him to form an idea of her situation, alone 

 in a foreign country, without any knowledge of the 

 language, without a friend to console her, or even the 

 means of performing in a proper manner the last du- 

 ties that we owe to departed friends ; the circumstances 

 of the place precluding the possibility of a funeral 

 solemnity. 



The interment of these two unfortunate persons was 

 attended to by Don Candido in the night-time, and 

 by torch-light, with the assistance of a few of his 

 friends. The bodies were deposited in a spot which 

 he had set apart as a burial-place for his own 

 family. The graves are only distinguishable by a 

 slight elevation of the earth, and a few trees that have 

 been planted there, but there is no stone or monumen- 

 tal record whatever to point them out to a stranger. 



