Once more we set sail and hurried down the Nile.

Several men were ill, but the dreaded symptom had not appeared.

I had given each man a strong dose of calomel at the commencement of the disease; I could do nothing more, as my medicines were exhausted.

All night we could hear the sick muttering and raving in delirium, but from years of association with disagreeables we had no fear of the infection.
One morning the boy Saat came to me with his head bound up, and complained of severe pain in the back and limbs, with all the usual symptoms of plague.

In the afternoon I saw him leaning over the ship's side; his nose was bleeding violently! At night he was delirious.