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54 African Memoranda. CHAPTER IV. Proceedings from the liejunction of the Ships, to the Abandonment of the Island of Bulama by the major Part of the Colonists, in the Ship Calypso. When i quitted the Hankey on the morning of the 5th, I had left a quiet, clean, healthy, and orderly ship, the colonists contented and in good spirits ; but when I returned on the 7th, I found a noisy, dirty, disorderly ship, the colonists dissatisfied and dispirited. That such a change could have been operated in so short a time was scarcely credible, but such was the effect of the Calypso’s rejunction. The fever, from which the Hankey was still free, had already made its appearance in the former ship ; and, instead of separating the infected from the well, and taking any steps to prevent the spreading of that dangerous dis ease, by prohibiting any unnecessary intercourse between the two ships, the whole time, since the arrival of the Calypso, had been taken up in the constant interchange of visits : nay, the affected themselves, the very persons who had the fever on them at the time, had been actually on board the Hankey ; and the con sequence was that many days did not elapse before the ever made its appearance in that ship also. Nothing was heard but mutual reproaches from the people of the Calypso. The colonists accused the members of the council, in that ship, of a want of attention to their comfort and accom modation ; they were tired with the length of the voyage, irri- 3