mauritus

Updated: June 28, 2025

Thus, different infectious disorders might proceed from peculiar species of animalcules, which, at given periods, are wafted into certain countries, carrying pestilence and death in their invisible course. A curious phenomenon has recently occurred at Mauritus, where that terrible scourge, the cholera, has been raging with desolating effect.

Sir Samuel White Baker - Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon