loaf of bread, which was left in the window. Four days
after this he grew uneasy about her, and one night
having prepared some tea and bread, he set off to her
ralief. When he arrived, the following scene presented
itself:--In the window lay the loaf, where it had been
deposited four days previously; in one corner of the
cabin, on a little straw, without covering of any kind,
lay the wretched mother, actually dying, and her infant
dead by her side, for the want of that sustenance which
she had not to give; on the floor lay the children, to
all appearance dying also of cold and hunger. At first
they refused to take anything, and he had to pour a
little liquid down their throats--with the cautious
administration of food they gradually recovered. The
woman expired before the visitor quitted the house.'--
Letter from Dr. Mucarthney, Monivae.

"'A man, his wife, and two children lay together in a
fever. The man died in the night; his wife, nearly
convalescent, was so terrified with his corpse in the
same bed with her, that she relapsed, and died in two
days after; the children recovered from fever, but the
eldest lost his reason by the fright. Many other scenes
have I witnessed, which would be too tedious to
relate.'--Barker & Oheyne's Report.

"I know not of any visitation so much to be dreaded as
epidemic fever; it is worse than the plague, for it
lasts throughout all seasons. Cholera may seem more
frightful, but it is in reality less destructive. It
terminates rapidly in death, or in as rapid recovery.
Its visitation, too, is short, and it leaves those who
recover unimpaired in health and strength. Civil war,
were it not for its crimes, would be, as far as regards
the welfare of a country, a visitation less to be
dreaded than epidemic fever."

*****

"It is not possible, then, to form an exaggerated
picture of the sufferings of a million and a half of
people in these countries, in their convalescence from
fever, deprived of, not only the comforts, but even the
necessaries of life, with scanty food, and fuel, and
covering, only rising from fever to slowly fall victims
to those numerous chronic diseases that are sure to
seize upon enfeebled constitutions. Death would be to
many a more merciful disp