. Reminiscences of the Baltic fleet of 1855 . ard ;seaman McCrea, from anuerism ; and Bull, fromapoplexy. I moralized over these deaths to theeffect that, after all, they were not disproportion-ate in our ships population ; for it would take atown of 20,000 inhabitants to furnish the ablebodied men we had on board. But deaths andsmall-pox little affected our gaiety ; for a sailorwhose broken leg I was bandaging said to me incheery fashion, Shall I be well for the taking ofCronstadt ? to which I answered Aye, aye. On the 18ththe Orion left at noon, but inthe evening, although fifty miles away,
. Reminiscences of the Baltic fleet of 1855 . ard ;seaman McCrea, from anuerism ; and Bull, fromapoplexy. I moralized over these deaths to theeffect that, after all, they were not disproportion-ate in our ships population ; for it would take atown of 20,000 inhabitants to furnish the ablebodied men we had on board. But deaths andsmall-pox little affected our gaiety ; for a sailorwhose broken leg I was bandaging said to me incheery fashion, Shall I be well for the taking ofCronstadt ? to which I answered Aye, aye. On the 18ththe Orion left at noon, but inthe evening, although fifty miles away, we sawher distinctly inverted in the heavens, throughmirage. We left Faro on the 19th and rejoined theFleet, without the occurrence of any more small-pox. During the next few days, many, includingmyself, had shivers and shakes like ague, probablydue to great variations in the temperature. 64 BALTIC FLEET OF 1855. The Queens birthday was kept with due honour-on the 24th ; and on the 26th, the Fleet leftNargen, heading- up the Gulf of g& ^ fe *» -, afl|1- pi. r *• $ 4 l r
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