Round Cape Horn : voyage of the passenger-ship James WPaige, from Maine to California in the year 1852 . to sixty cents a hundred. The North America left the harbor two days before did not visit her though she lay at anchor almost wdthinspeaking distance of us. A regulation of the port pro-hibits the passengers and crews passing from one ship toanother. It may have been a fortunate regulation for us,for we had many reports of the yellow fever being in theship. This disease had raged very fatally in the city, butwas beginning to subside, though we were told it wasstill rife. Mr. Kent, our
Round Cape Horn : voyage of the passenger-ship James WPaige, from Maine to California in the year 1852 . to sixty cents a hundred. The North America left the harbor two days before did not visit her though she lay at anchor almost wdthinspeaking distance of us. A regulation of the port pro-hibits the passengers and crews passing from one ship toanother. It may have been a fortunate regulation for us,for we had many reports of the yellow fever being in theship. This disease had raged very fatally in the city, butwas beginning to subside, though we were told it wasstill rife. Mr. Kent, our consul at Rio at this time, had removedwith his family into the country, where he found a moresalubrious climate than the city afforded. This was adisappointment to several of the passengers, Avho werepersonally acquainted wdth him, and had anticipated OUR CONSUL AT RIO. 45 much pleasure in meeting him in this distant land. is said to be very popular at Rio, and the interesthe takes in the oppressed seamen, and the kindness and hu-manity he manifests towards them, have done him
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