12. I am indifferently well, except my legs and thighs, where I have nearly a dozen biles, with which I am so lame I can scarcely walk.
13. To-day I took another portion of physic, which makes the sixth.
14. There are now twenty-six Americans here. Some are almost well of the small-pox, and have gone below into the recovering ward.
15. It is six months to-day since I left Newbury, and I fear it will be six more before I return.
16. To-day I took the seventh portion of physic.
17. This morning, died here, one Ebenezer Willis. He was a young man taken with Captain Brown, in the sloop Charming Sally. Also, this afternoon, of small-pox, Samuel Shriggings, he being the third of our company that has died in these hospitals, and the second in this ward, since I have been in it.
18. Last evening three of our company in the fifty-sixth ward, attempted to make their escape, but were discovered and taken before they got over the wall.
19. To-day I took my eighth portion of physic.
CHAPTER V.
Fourth Death—Captain Brown’s Escape—His Men sent to Prison—Discharge from the Hospital—Yellow Fever—Fifth Death—Cruelty to the Dead—Examination—Commitment to Prison—Prison Allowance—Hunger—Prison Employments—Charity Box—Hard Fare—Guard Alarmed—Friendly Visitors—A Mean Trick.