Note XXXII‑26 — Chapter XXXII · MOSQUITIA, NICARAGUA, AND COSTA RICA 1701-1800.
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In 1803 Nelson writes: 'The fever which destroyed the army and navy attached to that expedition was invariably from thirty to forty days before it attacked the new comers, and I cannot give a stronger instance than that in the Hinchinbrook [Nelson's ship], with a complement of 200 men, 87 took to their beds in one night.'