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U. S. SHIP CoLUMBUs-RaUages ofths ChoIe-
ra. A letter from on board this vessel, dated
Hong Kong, China, April II, says:


81 suppose that you have heard long before
this, that the cholera has been on board of US;
and has swept off many Of our young crew
Just imagine me one moment talking with my
merry shipmates, and, in two or three hours
more, called to witness them in the arms oi
that fell tyrant, Death. But as you ofimes
told me that God is everywhere, so now have
reason to think so. have witnessed scene
that never shall forget as long as live. We
sailed from Manila, one of the PHILIPPINE ISL
ands. We arrived there one day; the next we
had twelve men dead by cholera. The doctor
seeing the danger, ordered the ship to leave
again for this place; and from the time we
made sail until four days at sea, the boatsman
at every hour calling that melancholy sum-
mons, 'all hands to bury the dead' Sometimes
to the number Of FIVE corpses at a time were
brought up and launched into their deep and
watery grave. God have mercy upon their
souls! The dysontery, that dreadful disease in
this climate, is on board Of the ship; and the
Vncennes sloop of war has lost nearly all her
crew by the same disease, am now on the


list of sick and very bad"