A FEVER-STRICKEN SHIP.
A trying experience fell to the lob of the American barque Harvester, which has arrived at Newcastle from Delagoa Bay, owing to an outbroak of fever. The vessel was only five days ab sea when fever and ague made its appearance, and three of tho crew were stricken down. The next day several moro hands wore laid up, and each succeeding day the number was added to, till out of 16 hands all told, only three remained on deck to navigate the ship. The captain and chief officer were amongsb the victims, so that the second mate and two men were for days the only persons well enough to attend to the work of the vessel. The captain was one of the first to become convalescent, and no sooner was he able to be on deck than the second mate fell a victim to the malady, and the other two men followed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9831, 28 May 1895, Page 5
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155A FEVER-STRICKEN SHIP. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9831, 28 May 1895, Page 5
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