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On the 18tli of July Mr. Fraser's party arrived at Kislimee, where epidemic cholera was raging. Many of the inhabitants had fled to Meenab, to find the disease still fiercer in that locality.* The disease had by this time -reached Bunder Abbassee and Bahrein. On the 20th of August it broke out at Bushire ;t and on the 29th was heard of at Cauzeroon (Kazerun) and Sheerauz (Shiraz), in which latter place it first appeared in the Prince's Harem. J The disease was very severe in this locahty, and our author's companion, Mr. Rich, here died of cholera.
Mr. Eraser makes no further reference to the disease until he arrived at Tabreez in July, 1822. He then observes that it is " difficult to say how, or whence, the epidemic cholera reached Tabreez. It was sup- posed to have travelled fi^om Bagdad along the caravan road, by Hamadan and Sennah'; but no account, to be at all depended on, could be obtained of its gradual progress." § The disease soon afterwards appeared in Grheelan, at Reshd," and in the King's camp at Sultania, "in spite of quarantine." In August, 1821, the epidemic had invaded the Persian arn»y besieging Bagdad. It committed terrible havoc among the in- habitants of Aleppo, and was generated in various other towns of Asia Minor.
In 1828 cholera broke out at Alexandretta, and reappeared in most of the places it had visited during the preceding year, being also generated in several of the seaport towns on the Caspian ; and in September,
- 'Narrative of a Journey into Khorasan in 1821 and 1822,' p. 35.
By J. B. Fraser. London, 1825. t Idem, p. 57. X Idem, p. 83.
§ ' Travels and Adventiires in Persian Provinces,' p. 316. By J. B. Fraser. London, 1826.
