[1182] Gillespie, Obs. on the Diseases in H. M.’s Squadron on the Leeward Island Station in 1794-6. Lond. 1800.
[1183] For example, Mr R. L. Stevenson in a striking passage of Treasure Island.
[1184] Thurloe’s State Papers, III. IV. and V.; Harl. Miscell. III. 513; Long’s History of Jamaica, 3 vols. London, 1774; Cal. S. P., Amer. and W. I.
[1185] Harl. Miscel. l. c.
[1186] Sir Anthony Shirley touched at Jamaica in 1596, and reported, “we have not found in the Indies a more pleasant and wholesome place.” Hakluyt, III. 601. Long (History of Jamaica, 1774, II. 221) states the case very fairly with reference to the unfortunate expedition of Venables in 1655: “The climate of the island has unjustly been accused by many writers on the subject, the one copying from the other, and represented as almost pestilential, without an examination into the real sources of this mortality, which being fairly stated, it will appear that the same men carrying the like thoughtless conduct and vices into any other uninhabited quarter of the globe, must infallibly have involved themselves in the like calamitous situation.”
[1187] MS. State Papers, Colonial (Record Office), Vol. XIV. No. 57 (1660).
[1188] Thomas Trapham, M.D., Discourse of the State of Health in Jamaica. Lond. 1679.
[1189] Moseley, op. cit. p. 421, without reasons given; followed by Hirsch. Geog. and Hist. Pathol. (English transl.), I. 318.
[1190] Hist. of Jamaica, III. 615.
[1191] Cal. S. P. Amer. and W. I.