Every day Kate Murray came at a fixed time to the door of the cabin given up to the fever patients and waved to her family to show them she was still well.“Thank God your mother has not taken the sickness!” James told Kirsty, but neither of them dared say a word of the fear in their hearts.Archibald McDonald, the leader of the Sutherlanders, wondered when the danger of infection would be over. So did Captain Turner. He sent for McDonald and, with Mr Cotterell, the mate, he talked to him about the sickness.“I have never had this fever in my ship before. Already you have lost a number of settlers and I have lost two reliable lads from my crew,” he told McDonald. “If I lose any more men, how am I to sail my ship home again? I cannot easily pick up seafaring men in the Arctic.”“Maybe there will be one or two men of the Hudson’s Bay Company willing to work their passage home,” Cotterell suggested.Captain Turner frowned at him. “I cannot rely on that. I would like to get this load of settlers landed as soon as may be.
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