![]() In Asia it usually spreads at a rate of a mile per decade. To travel from the Crimea to the Orkneys within three years is an astonishing speed for Y. They caught the plague and many died, but enough survived to take the plague home with them. An opportunistic Scottish army massed on the border to exploit England's weakness. By coincidence, as the Black Death swept through England, the sheep, who outnumbered the human population, also succumbed to a disease, probably liver fluke, and died by the thousand. Another omen was the death of Siamese twins in Hull, who were as famous for their singing voices as for their unusual condition. The arrival of the plague in the north of England two years later was heralded by an earthquake which shook York minister. Soon everyone was too sick to fight and just wanted to go home, taking the Black Death with them. Luck or divine intervention turned, as the Tartar commander, Khan Janibeg, began to catapult the corpses of his men into Caffa. When the plague began to kill the besiegers the Genoese took this as a stroke of luck, if not divine intervention. ![]() In the spring of 1347, Caffa, a Genoese trading colony on the Black Sea, was under siege from a Tartar army. ![]() ![]() ![]() The first Europeans exposed to the Black Death welcomed it. ![]()
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