Friend followed friend in quick succession.

The sick were avoided from the fear of contagion, and for the same reason the dead were left unburied.

Nearly two thousand dead bodies lay uncovered in the burial-ground, with only here and there a little lime thrown over them, to prevent the air becoming infected.

The negro, whose home is in a hot climate, was not proof against the disease.

Many plantations had to suspend their work for want of slaves to take the places of those who had been taken off by the fever..