The Dead were like to destroy the Living.

[**The following is in regards to the immediate aftermath of a massive, apocalyptic earthquake that destroyed the English settlement city, and pirate haven, of Port Royal in 1692.**] >The most immediate problems for the townspeople were disease and supplies. One observer recalled looking out into the harbor and seeing corpses packing the water’s surface from one end of the harbor to another, like logs in a Wisconsin river. The bodies “caused such an intolerable stench, that the Dead were like to destroy the Living.” >The corpses that had been expelled from the graveyard mixed with the cadavers of the newly dead, and in the head their flesh roasted and blistered. Inevitably they became carriers of diseases that struck the survivors with shocking force. _______________________________ **Source:** Talty, Stephan. “Apocalypse.” *Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan’s Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws’ Bloody Reign*. New York: Crown Publishing Group (NY), 2007. 302. Print. _______________________________ **Further Reading:** [1692 Jamaica Earthquake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1692_Jamaica_earthquake)