burst it open, with his foot; and was, in a moment almost overpowered by the horrid stench. Seeing a man's legs protruding from the straw, he moved them slightly with his foot; when a husky voice asked for water. In another part of the cabin, on removing a piece of canvas, he discovered three dead bodies, which had lain there _unburied for the fortnight_; and hard against one of these, and almost embraced in the arms of death, lay a young person far gone with fever. He related other cases too horrible to be published. ELIHU BURRITT. PRINTED BY J. W. SHOWELL, TEMPLE-STREET, BIRMINGHAM. Transcriber's Note: Hyphenation has been standardised. Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note, whilst more significant errors have been listed below: Page 3, 'indescrible' amended to _indescribable_. Page 11, 'delapidated' amended to _dilapidated_.