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but the conqueft has been honorable to our 

 countrymen and comrades. 



Since I wrote to you toft we have had the 

 misfortune to lofe one of the foldiers by the 

 difeafe called coup de foleil, or ictus folis. 

 The poor man was on guard and ftationed as 

 fentinel to take his turn of duty for two hours 

 at the gate of the fort, but before this fhort 

 period had elapfed he was fuddenly feized, fell 

 down, and expired at his poft. The day was 

 exceffively hot, and the perpendicular rays of 

 the fun fell in their fulleft ardor upon his head. 

 Others of the men have likewife experienced 

 the difeafe, but we have only,^in this inftance, 

 feen it fatal. 



I may alfo mention to you a very mark- 

 ed and melancholy cafe of yellow fever which 

 has occurred at fort William Frederic, afford- 

 ing a ftriking example of the nature of this af- 

 flictive malady. A grenadier named Lle- 

 wellyn, a handfome and well made man, of 

 robuft figure, was brought into the hofpital, 

 complaining only of an uneafy fenfation about 

 the region of the ftomach, which although 

 indefcribable,^conveyed to him an early affur- 



