Show I I 1 I I I 1 MOSQUITOES BRING r AlARIA AND DEAT TO STEAMSHIP CREW CR Infest Swamp of Tributary to Amazon Up Which Vessel Sailed NEW KEW YORK May r IS A A story of death leath and hardship due elue to m qui qui- toes was told tole by br Captain Frederick Frederiek Weeks navigator of the ibe a small British h t f now in port from Kingston The vessel was brou brought bt to New Kw Nework York ork ork by h S crew S' of negroes 7 he be o- o cause enuse nearly all ail of the rt regular ular crew are dead or r recuperating from malarial mala niala rial fever due to the insect bites The rho had gone up the Ma Ma- deira leira river a branch of the Amazon 1700 miles from Para with railway supplies There was a stop at Porto Velpo for twenty one one days and although al 11 though the men were in at atI night the they were bitten in in the day bv by huge mosquitoes Of the twenty three members of the crew eighteen contracted con conS traded the fever The firemen who had bad weighed pounds were so 10 emaciated when they got to Kin Kingston ston that their thir relatives relative's s failed to recognize ize them The homeward homeward homeward home home- homeI I ward trip started March 2 23 25 0 and one man died clid as the went down the river The day before Kingston was reached another man died and the next night ni a fireman died just as the ship was making makinA port |