Note 10 — Chapter I
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On August 28, 1859, 155 white soldiers, young and picked men, who had shipped at Cadiz, July 16, 1859, arrived at Fernando Po, under H.E. the Governor de la Gandara, who is now fighting his country’s battles in Santo Domingo. On July 16, 1863, after concluding their three years’ service, forty-seven of these men returned to Spain. I have been unable to procure statistics of their health or sickness since that period. Of the 108 casualties, or more than two-thirds of the original number, thirty-five men died, mostly during the first eighteen months; the other seventy-three were sent home invalided.