Scarcely less sudden or less fatal was the attack among the English lines, and for some time the English camps were ravaged by cholera.
Jack was extremely anxious about his brother, for the light division suffered even more severely than did the others.

But he was not able to go himself to see as to the state of things, for the naval officers were not allowed to go on shore more than was absolutely necessary.
And as the camp of the light division had been moved some ten miles farther away on to the slopes of the Balkans, it would have been impossible to go and return in one day.

Such precautions as were taken, however, were insufficient to keep the cholera from on board ship.

In a short time the fleet was attacked with a severity almost equal to that on shore, and although the fleet put out to sea, the flagship in two days lost seventy men.
Fortunately the "Falcon" had left Varna before the outbreak extended to the ships.

The Crimea had now been definitely determined upon as the point of assault.