"It was a fiery August day. The sun had for many weeks been pouring his fierce and burning rays upon the earth, which now lay so parched and dried beneath them, that the heavy night dews failed to restore the vigour of the plants and herbage, and the whole country in mountain and valley, town and forest, seemed to faint. Indians, and those accustomed to the heat of the tropics, said that the climate reminded them of that eastern one from which they had been so glad to escape, but English people, -those especially who had never left their own temperate atmosphere, - sickened and died as if plague-smitten. Few there were who escaped without some serious illness, and even of those few, the healthiest and the strongest of the population, not one but was languid, weak and indisposed to exertion. "

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