The commissioned officers lived as they liked, denied themselves no indulgence, and were driving about all day, and every day, in sun and rain, to visit each other and their friends.

A fever, similar to that above described, broke out among the soldiers and non-commissioned officers in the fort, and great numbers died.

Of the six hundred, only sixteen escaped the fever.

When too late, they were removed from the fort into tents on the plain.

From that day the deaths diminished, and the sick began to recover.