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Yellow fever. Return to Origin. |
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| Voyage: | 110703 (click here to view all of the events on the voyage) |
| Date (From source): | 18-03-1851 |
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| Date (Normalised): | 18-03-1851 |
| Event Location: | Rio de Janeiro |
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| Vessel(s): |
Marinion (Brig),
Master Robert Horn |
| Voyage description: | Cargo of Coffee and dried hides from Rio de Janeiro bound to Gibraltar and Malta. Yellow fever attack. |
| Transcription: | Two hours after, the appearer the Mate William Weston Leander, Seaman and George Hicks, Apprentice, were attacked by Yellow Fever, and on the following day, other two seamen and the cook. On the eighteenth a seventh man was attacked, out of a crew of twelve in all, including the appearer the Master, under which circumstances this latter had no other alternative than to bear up, which they accordingly did at noon, and running for the harbour with a heavy sea on the Bar, and dark squally weather, they brought up inside of the Port by midnight |