Pope Hennessey's health was not affected.

He worked with the French and for the French and against the English, and he made the English very tired and the French very happy, and lived to have the joy of seeing the flag he served publicly hissed.

His memory is held in worshipful reverence and affection by the French.
"It is a land of extraordinary quarantines.

They quarantine a ship for anything or for nothing; quarantine her for 20 and even 30 days.
They once quarantined a ship because her captain had had the smallpox when he was a boy.

That and because he was English.
"The population is very small; small to insignificance.