does. I am ferry, however, to tell you, that 

 we are ftili likely to be detained for fome time 

 in this Ifland, it being intended that we mould 

 wait the arrival of General Whyte, and the 

 Cork divifion, and all proceed to St. Domingo 

 under the fame convoy. 



I am nappy to be able to announce to you 

 that the ills of climate have, hitherto, fcarcely 

 reached me; but my friends Cleghorn and 

 Matter, I am forry to remark, are greater 

 fufferers than myfelf. All of us are annoyed 

 by the prickly heat, and thofe tormenting 

 infe&s the mufquitoes ; but, in Cleghorn, the 

 prickly heat is fo violent, as to become quite 

 a fore eruption ; and, on the legs of Matter, 

 the bites of mufquitoes have produced very 

 troublefome ulcers : alfo, in addition to thefe 

 evils, both of my friends are frequently 

 troubled with epiftaxis * ; with which I have 

 not been once attacked, 



Regardlefs that they are more difturbed 

 by the effe£ts of climate than I am, they often 

 a m life themfelves at my continuing to obferve 

 an abftemious diet, and to perfevere in my 



* Bleeding from the nofe. 



