220 THE LITE or

 on a height which overhangs the city, having been
 consisted now only of large sheds covered with
 Therein the patients were for the most part laid in
 provided with necessary appliances, exposed now to
 of storms, now to torrents of rain. and now to the b
 of the sun. Those remaining in the city were better p2I
 and cared for, but breathing an impurer air, and depri
 breezes by the mountains, they suffered isarely less, a
 as certainly. '
 Military discipline disappeared; the common soldier:
 same authority as the general, and each general acknowN
 no authority except his own. Men spoke no more of coaq
 of exploits, of glory. The heart of the s>.ldier rank within
 Even the funeral knell ceased its mourtiful sounds; ths 
 moo calamity rushed the sense of religious. obl,-rvance. AI
 midst of disorder and confusion, death heaped ri. lim on Vir
 Friend followed friend in quit:k succession; the sick were a
 ed from the fear of cnnria:ion, and for thb- same reason thbeA
 were letl without buril. DIpair alone remained in ..
 -firce despair; for the dying man could 'ast his eye on no
 friend nor nurse, and had to suffer and expire in terrifiae
 tude or more terrific companionship. The cullrnry, the m
 tains, the sea, afforded no place of refuLge. The troope;i
 were removed to a distance from the town i: 4,re not the led
dta, kld. Their camp was transformed into a hospital.
 diers died under trees laden with fruit, awnl under plants bhi
 ing perfumes. The shipsof war and men.r hint esels loati
 crews. Eight-and-l-,rty passengers from Ilon1eaux expire
 disembarking at the Cape. Terrified at Ihe destruclionifi
 on nearing the island, went on board vessel that were quil
 it, infected shores, yet perished, smitten Iy the poisoned.
 F.ur thousand men who came in Dutch is.-.I- p.rInshLd. ]
 multiplied the victims. 0 i
 W'ben the malady was in all its force, human i.assions a.
 il.sted their guilty excesses. Virtue was disregarded who
 no longer otffred an earthly reward. Some sought distrde