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This letter does not contain anything else of interest. To be precise: this letter does not contain anything else.
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My father does not say so, but the foreigner who traveled with him on board the Isabel died around that time. His surname was Jennings; I haven’t found his first name anywhere. Jennings committed the error of bringing his young and pregnant wife, who survived no more than six months. After the death of her husband, Mrs. Jennings, already infected with the fever as well, was hired as a barmaid in an infamous casino, and there she was seen serving drinks to gold prospectors with arms so pale it was impossible to distinguish them from her blouse, her chest and hips so scrawny from the disease they did not even provoke passes from any drunken gamblers.