Miss Cisneros was, however, afraid that the Spanish Government might
insist that the United States should send her back to her prison in
Cuba, and so she hastened to give up her allegiance to Spain, and
shelter herself under the protection of the American Government.
* * * * *
For some time past there has been a terrible epidemic of yellow fever in
the South.
An epidemic means a disease that affects a large number of people at the
same time and is widely spread.
The disease was first noticed in a little summer watering-place not far
from New Orleans. It was not recognized as yellow fever, the doctors
thinking it a harmless little summer fever, of which the symptoms are
very similar.
Little by little the disease gained headway, until by the time its true
character was understood it had taken a hold on the people and had
become difficult to stamp out.
The strictest quarantine regulations were enforced as soon as the
sickness was proved to be true yellow fever, even the passengers on the
trains being inspected and closely watched before they were allowed to
pass from infected districts to those which were free from the dreaded
disease.
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