Our author next proceeds to take notice of what happened during this ship’s voyage to Marseilles. On the 31st of January he left the coast of Syria with a clean patent, before the plague broke out. On the 25th of May he arrived at Marseilles, from Sidon, Tripoli and Cyprus. On the voyage, or at Leghorn, he lost six of the crew; but, by the certificates of the physicians of health at Leghorn, these died only _of malignant fevers caused by unwholesome provisions_. These last words in the Traite de la Peste are said to have been interpolated at Marseilles. At any rate, as Dr. Russel observes, they could relate only to those who died at Leghorn, not to the others, whom the physicians had not seen. The other account is much less favourable. According to it, Chataud “left Sidon the 31st of January with a clean patent. The plague discovered itself there a few days after his departure. Having sustained some damage by bad weather, he put into Tripoli, where he embarked some merchandise; he took in also some Turks, passengers for Cyprus, together with their luggage. Soon after the ship had left Tripoli, one of these passengers fell sick and died. Two of the sailors employed to throw the corpse overboard desisted at the desire of the pilot, and the rest of the ceremony was performed by the other Mahommedan passengers; the ropes with which the body was lowered down, being by way of precaution thrown into the sea. Within a few days the two sailors who had handled the corpse were taken sick and died. At Cyprus the ship put her remaining passengers on shore, and made a very short stay. Soon after her departure from that island, a third sailor and the surgeon died of an illness of a few days duration. The captain, justly alarmed by these accidents, ordered the bedding and other things used by the deceased to be thrown into the sea; and kept himself carefully separate from the crew during the remainder of his voyage. Some time after this three more sailors fell sick, and, there being no surgeon on board, the vessel put into Leghorn, where the three sick men died, and the physician and surgeon of the lazaretto declared the disease to be a malignant pestilential fever.”