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Roux, of Bourbon. The baron, hearing of the illness of the 
Mission family, went, accompanied by Monsieur Roux, to 
visit them, taking along with him the medical officer of 
the vessel. And on his return to the ship, he kindly sent 
them a supply of medicines, wine, and biscuit. 
Baron Macao, on sailing back almost immediately to 
France, took with him Berora, one of Mr. Jones’s pupils, 
and son of Fisatra, to receive his education in Paris. 
Monsieur Roux, sometime afterwards, again visited Tama- 
tave, with some French emigrants and troops; but being 
unable to form an arrangement with Jean Rene, to reside 
there in the capacity of governor, he sailed for St. Mary’s, 
where ultimately he, and most of those who accompanied 
him, died of the fever. 
On the 13th of December, Mr. and Mrs. Jones lost their 
infant daughter. The trial was severely felt, as they them¬ 
selves had, during the illness of the child, been too unwell to 
render it the least attention. Until the 22d they continued 
suffering in the same manner, when attacks of violent sick¬ 
ness led to the suspicion of an attempt having been made 
to poison them—a suspicion confirmed by the circumstance 
of some tangena, a well-known poison, being, on a careful 
investigation instituted by Mr. Bragg’s express directions, 
found in their kitchen. On the 26th they were both suffi¬ 
ciently recovered to be able to walk across the room; but 
on the 28th the symptoms with which Mrs. Jones had pre¬ 
viously been affected, assumed a more alarming character 
than ever. The loss of both sight and hearing was at¬ 
tended with great swelling of the limbs, and on the fol¬ 
lowing day she was numbered with the dead. 
No sooner did the tidings of this melancholy circum¬ 
stance reach the chieftain Jean Rene, than he offered wood 
for making a coffin, and sent his carpenters to prepare it. 
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