Weather at Senegambia, &c. 
appearance of the diforder itfelf after the contagion had 
taken place, but I think the three related ones fufficient. 
The ceflation of this contagious difeafe may be dated 
from about the middle of September. Governor clarke, 
who died the 1 8th of this month, concluded the dreadful 
fcene. He had avoided the communication with all lick 
people, but did not helitate in admitting my company, I 
was the only one who dined with him for feveral weeks ; 
and as I was continually among the lick in the hofpital 
and on the illand (of the former of which I gave him a 
return every morning) I might probably have conveyed 
the infection to him in my cloathing, though I was not 
affected myfelf. A few people died in the months of 
October, November, and December; fome of relapfes of 
the fame fever, and others of fevere fluxes and abfcefles 
in the liver, in which the diforder had terminated. It is 
remarkable, that a fleet of merchant-men, under convoy 
of . a Hoop of war, which left Senegal on the fourth of 
Auguft, and failed for England, had, by what I could 
learn, been entirely free from this diforder; neither did 
it reach as far as the river Gambia, for the garrifon at 
Fort James in that river enjoyed a pretty good ftate of 
health during all this time, and loft only two men, who 
■died of fluxes. 
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