1830. 



IN THE HOSPITAL. 



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was vaccinated, which is supposed, by the medical officers of 

 the hospital, to be the small- pox. 



" As the other three individuals have been always in com- 

 pany with him, it is to be feared that they also are affected ; 

 and as the vaccination has not yet taken a proper effect, it is 

 the opinion of the medical officers that it would be safer to 

 receive them into the hospital, until the present critical period 

 is passed, than to allow them to remain in private care. 



" I have further to request, that my late coxswain, James 

 Bennett, may be permitted to accompany, and remain with the 

 Fuegians, in order to attend upon them, in the event of their 

 Lordships allowing them to be admitted into the hospital ; and 

 I hope, Sir, that the peculiar nature of the case may be thought 

 to justify this application. 



" I have, &c. 



" The Secretary Robert Fitz-Roy, Commander.'' 



of the Admiralty. 



" Sir, Admiralty-Office, 10th Nov. 1830. 



" I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the 

 Admiralty to acquaint you, in answer to your letter of this 

 day's date, that directions have been given for the admission of 

 the four Fuegians therein alluded to, into the Naval Hospital 

 at Plymouth, and that James Bennett be allowed to attend 

 them, agreeably with your request. 



" I am, Sir, &c. 

 " Commander Fitz-Roy. (Signed) " John Barrow." 



The Admiralty having thus sanctioned the admission of the 

 Fuegians into one of the best hospitals, and assured that 

 they could not be under better treatment than that of the 

 well-known gentlemen whom I have mentioned, I felt less 

 anxiety in leaving them for a time, as I was obliged to do, in 

 order to attend to duties connected with the survey ; but I 

 had hardly reached London, when a letter from Dr. Dickson 

 informed me of the untimely fate of Boat Memory. He had 

 been vaccinated four different times ; but the three first opera- 



