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DEATH OP MR. MARSHALL. 
Ou the 20th an unclouded sky and most sultry 
condition of the atmosphere added to the sick list the 
only remaining executiye officer, Mr. Sidney ; a quar- 
ter-master and a marine, who had previously been 
rather indisposed ; thus all the executive duty fell on 
Lieutenant Fishbourne. Poor Perrham, a stoker, was 
also suffering, but as he was the only one who could 
safely keep the engine going, he took medicine and laid 
himself down near the engine-room hatch on deck, from 
which he was raised when his services were impera- 
tively required. The sufferings of the sick altogether 
were much aggravated by the suffocating state of the 
air, and but for the frequent sponging and fanning of 
the most debilitated, the ultimate results would have 
probably been more unfavourable than they were. 
The vomiting was a very distressing symptom, and 
increased by the urgent thirst which induced the suf- 
ferers to drink largely. The most efficacious remedy 
was an occasional small effervescing powder with slight 
excess of alkali or total abstinence from fluid for a 
short time. 
On the 21st, the ‘Soudan’ was well down the river, 
and passing rapidly through the pestiferous delta. 
Thomas, a carpenter’s mate, breathed his last about 
noon, and at night, just as the ‘ Soudan’ had anchored 
at the mouth of the river, Mr. W. B. Marshall, acting- 
surgeon, entered on that happy change for which in 
the time of health he had so long and earnestly been 
preparing himself. From the first his case had been 
