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officers, and about a hundred and forty men. The Cale-donia, the healthiest ship of the three, threw overboard ahundred corpses. The squalid survivors, as if they werenot sufficiently miserable, raged fiercely against one an-other. Charges of incapacity, cruelty, brutal insolence,were hurled backward and forward. The rigid Presby-terians attributed the calamities of the colony to the wicked-ness of Jacobites, Prelatists, Sabbath-breakers, Atheists,who hated in others that image of God which was wantingin themselves. The accused malignants, on the other hand,complained bitterly of the impertinence of meddling fana-tics and hypocrites. Paterson was cruelly reviled, andwas unable to defend himself. He had been com-pletely prostrated by bodily and mental suffering. Helooked like a skeleton. His heart was broken. His in-ventive faculties and his plausible eloquence were nomore; and he seemed to have sunk into second child-hood.

Meanwhile the second expedition had been on the seas.It reached Darien about four months after the first settlershad fled. The new comers had fully expected to find aflourishing young town, secure fortifications, cultivatedfields, and a cordial welcome. They found a wilderness.The castle of New Edinburgh was in ruins. The huts hadbeen burned. The site marked out for the proud capitalwhich was to have been the Tyre, the Venice, the Amster-dam of the eighteenth century was overgrown with jungle,and inhabited only by the sloth and the baboon. The