OF HONDURAS.


the increase of the white population
bears no kind of proportion with its de-
crease.
 The diseases more particularly inciden-
tal to this part of the world are fevers,
chiefly of the intermittent kind. During
the hottest months those of a bilious and
inflammatory nature are likewise preva-
lent, and frequently prove fatal to per-
sons newly arrived. Complaints of a
pulmonic description are seldom the at.
tendants of hot climates, and are therefore
but little known in this.
 The influenza, so common and fre-
quently so fatal in Europe, proved pecu-
liarly destructive here during the months
of December 1807, and January 1808.
It may be remarked, as a singular cir-
cumstance connected with this complaint,
that it proved invariably more fatal to
blacks than to whites.
 There is an evil with which the ne-
groes employed in the woods are very corn