ywhere--under a boat--in your store-room, so that I
can get to Kingston somehow." But the stewardess was not to be moved.

"There's nowhere but the saloon, and you can't expect to stay with the
white people, that's clear. Flesh and blood can stand a good deal of
aggravation; but not that. If the Britishers is so took up with
coloured people, that's their business; but it won't do here."

This last remark was in answer to an Englishman, whose advice to me
was not to leave my seat for any of them. He made matters worse; until
at last I lost my temper, and calling Mac, bade him get my things
together, and went up to the captain--a good honest man. He and some
of the black crew and the black cook, who showed his teeth most
viciously, were much annoyed. Muttering about its being a custom of
the country, the captain gave me an order upon the agent for the money
I had paid; and so, at twelve o'clock at night, I was landed again
upon the wharf of Navy Bay.

My American friends were vastly annoyed, but not much surprised; and
two days later, the English steamer, the "Eagle," in charge of my old
friend, Captain B----, touched at Navy Bay, and carried me to
Kingston.

CHAPTER VII.

THE YELLOW FEVER IN JAMAICA--MY EXPERIENCE OF DEATH-BED
SCENES--I LEAVE AGAIN FOR NAVY BAY, AND OPEN A STORE
THERE--I AM ATTACKED WITH THE GOLD FEVER, AND START FOR
ESCRIBANOS--LIFE IN THE INTERIOR OF THE REPUBLIC OF
NEW GRANADA--A REVOLUTIONARY CONSPIRACY ON A SMALL
SCALE--THE DINNER DELICACIES OF ESCRIBANOS--JOURNEY UP
THE PALMILLA RIVER--A FEW WORDS ON THE PRESENT ASPECT
OF AFFAIRS ON THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMA.

I stayed in Jamaica eight months out of the year 1853, still
remembered in the island for its suffering and gloom. I returned just
in time to find my services, with many others, needful; for the yellow
fever never made a more determined effort to exterminate the English
in Jamaica than it did in that dreadful year. So violent was the
epidemic, that some of my people fell victims to its fury, a thing
rarely heard of before. My house was full of sufferers--officers,
their wives and children. Very often they were borne in from the ships
in the harbour--sometimes in a dying state, sometimes--after long and
distressing struggles with the grim foe--to recover. Habituated as I
had become with death in its most harrowing forms, I found these
scenes more difficult to bear than any I had previously borne a pa