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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 1: lineage and education. (search)
t of Bolivar's expedition. When Bolivar crossed the Cordilleras, my father returned to the West India Islands and, in order to refit, landed at the Island of St. Christopher (St. Kitts), one of the British Islands. While there he died of the yellow fever, el vomito. So did some portion of his crew and one of his officers, I belieSt. Kitts), one of the British Islands. While there he died of the yellow fever, el vomito. So did some portion of his crew and one of his officers, I believe his first officer. That pestilence and its terrible results was among the first diseases of which I remember ever to have learned from my suffering mother. I mention this because it made so indelible an impression on my memory that it impelled me, when I was older, to investigate that scourge to such extent as I might, and thimay have the pleasure of knowing that, in justice to him, I have preserved his memory to go down with my own as far as mine will go. The death of my father in St. Kitts, and the irrecoverable loss of what he had there, left my mother in a state of comparative poverty. But against it she struggled with wisdom and vigor, and with