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Show Swiftly Fatal MaUdlea. Every once in a while from out the mysterious mys-terious and fecund dept hs of tropic swamps or forests some strange disease appears to desolate unhappy sections of the earth. The Gcrmau bark J. C. Warns, which reached New York the other day, came into port under the command of a petty officer. He announced that the captain and, mates had died at sea of beriberi, an incurable malady peculiar to the islands of the Mr 'ay Archipelago. This ailment affects the muscles, causes great languor, and Dually dissolution. From a different direction comes the report re-port that for several months past the colony col-ony of British Honduras, as well as the neighboring republics, has been under the ban of a disease which, while said by some experts to be yellow fever, is yet so terrible in its character as to kill off without with-out a single exception every one whom it attacks. A young Scotchman died from it a few days ago, and has been followed by Gabb Stancreek, a thirty-year-old resident resi-dent of the colony, whose passage had been taken by the steamer Aguan for New York. Great excitement and anxiety were experienced ex-perienced in Belize when it was seen that the Aguan, which had arrived from the south, was flying the yellow flag and lying in the quarantine grounds. Every one who can do so is leaving Honduras for England or the states. At the Cayo, seventy-live miles northwest of Belize, it is reported that people aredying like sheep with the rot, and nobody really knows what the disease is. The European doctors call it yellow fever, but the American medicos differ from them. The only thing, therefore, positively known is that in the course of five or six days it kills everybody whom it attacks. |
