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 loat Frenchmen and as-ailant., liut s.Fuercrs. There
 h.ber benefactors. Sister of Charity, truly worthy of the
 went from street to street, and from bed to bed, minister-
 tenderness and skill to the sit"k, the despairing, and the
 g. Womanly lore was almost the only virtue that main-
 d itself erect. When all other remedies had proved vain,
 noble affection showed it .-l fertile in resources, nor was it
 ae. respe,:table because in the extremity it resorted to fetish
 Sices which had their origin in Africa. More simple and
 More touching was that manifestation of it which com-
 rd young women to follow their lovers to their graves,-
 I. Annd the fallhle4s only faithful found."

p terrible to think that some of thie- worthy women may
krward have been repaid with slavery.
AL length, when the summer heat., had reached their height,
p-malady reloublrd its fury, and broke down alike benevolence
. virtue. Then was the hardest of dnath Act onling to
thentic tal'lti, ther:- dild fifteen hundred offi,-ers twenty
flMand soldier-s, nine thousand sailors, and three thousand
mons who looely hung about the skirts of the army in quest
>employmeut or Iortune. Nor fewer than fourteen generals
t their lies in the plague. f1 that number was Debelle,
phoe virtues made him regretted alike by foes and friends;
igua, an intrepid and jr.you; old man, whose hairs bad grown
py on the borders of the Nile; Hardy, who had displayed
ie courage in the victories and the reverses of the expedition.
Most incredible i-. it that there died seven hundred medical
pn, worthy, for the moit, of high praise, such was their cour-
p, their patience, their devotedness.
T'he mala y changed the character of the army. Those who
rvived, experiencing. a long and ditffiult convalescence, be- ,..
pne habitually depressed, morose, or exasperated. Some had
pir memory weakened; some remained broken down or crip-
pd for life. Discipline was restored with difficulty. Even
prs from home brought little pleasure, and gave only a tran-


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