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cured, was difeharged. The fourth of Auguft he was 
again reported to me as very fick in the barracks. I went 
to fee and found him in a high fever with the worft 
fymptoms. I ordered him to be carried to the hofpital, 
where he died the third day, with all the fymptoms of 
the greateft putridity. The orderly man of the hofpital 
was feized on the fixth of Auguft with the fame difeafe, 
and died the ninth. One of the venereal patients, who 
remained ftill in the hofpital, was taken with the fame 
fever, and died a few days after. Some of the foldiers of 
the fort, having accefs to the hofpital to vifit their lick 
comrades, took the contagion, and fpread it through the 
whole garrifon. I am apt to believe, that the diforder 
was brought to Senegal by the black meffengers from 
Goree; for I underftood that one of them had died foon 
after his arrival in Senegal, and it may be, that the fol- 
dier who died firft of it got the infection from them; for 
it is probable, that being difeharged the hofpital on the 
fecond of Auguft, and having leave to take a walk on 
the ifland on the third, he had been in company with 
fome of thefe black meffengers, or in the huts where 
they reforted, for the fake of hearing fome news from 
Goree, where he was acquainted. It may perhaps be 
obferved, that the foldier taking the contagion on the 
third of Auguft, it could not make fo rapid a progrefs as 
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