Chapter 11 -More Scenes in Jamaica.

There be land-rats and water-rats-water-thieves

and land-thieves I mean pirates.

The Merchant Of Venice, I. iii. 22-24.

The malady from whose fangs I had just escaped, was at this time making fearful ravages amongst the troops and white inhabitants of Jamaica generally; nor was the squadron exempted from the afflicting visitation, although