It was in vain that Schomberg tried to teach them to improve their habitations, and to cover the wet earth on which they lay with a thick carpet of fern.

Exertion had become more dreadful to them than death.

It was not to be expected that men who would not help themselves should help each other.

Nobody asked and nobody showed compassion.

Familiarity with ghastly spectacles produced a hardheartedness and a desperate impiety, of which an example will not easily be found even in the history of infectious diseases.