Note 27 — Chapter XV

Capt. Belcher, who was here in 1838, says of Managua, that “it suffered severely in the late cholera visitation; losing six hundred out of the population of twelve thousand. Of this number it is rather remarkable that females between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five, and principally newly married, were the predominant victims. Generally this place is considered as peculiarly healthy, the average deaths seldom exceeding one per cent.”—Voyage round the World, vol. i. p. 172.