Armenian contained each 120 patients. This was a good opportunity to become conversant, with the diseases of the climate, and from constant observation I found the plague was frequently checked by an active practice of which the Medici of the East were totally ignorant. Intermittent fevers and the Lepra Graecorum are very peculiar in the Levant. Hard eggs and salt fish being the hospital diet, phthisis is most prevalent. During the tour Darwin visited Tangiers, Tetuan, and attempted to get into Fes, not then visited by Europeans, but was not permitted to reach that closed centre of Islam. His wife's copy of her husband's diary was the source for Travels in Spain and the East, 1808-1810; by Sir Francis Sacheverell Darwin; [edited by F. D. S. Darwin]. Cambridge: University Press, 1927. Marriage and children On 16 December 1815 he married Jane Harriet Ryle (11 December 1794 – 19 April 1866) - at St. George, Hanover Square, London. They had the following children: Mary Jane Darwin (12 February 1817 – 1872), married Charles Carill-Worsley of Platt Hall, near Manchester, in 1840. One daughter, Elizabeth (d. 1927), married Nicolas Tindal of Aylesbury Manor. Four children survived infancy (surnamed Tindal-Carill-Worsley): Charles (d. 1920), Captain RN, married Rose Dalby, leaving no issue; Ralph (d. 1967), Commander RN, married Kathleen, daughter of Simon Mangan of Dunboyne Castle, HM Lieutenant for County Meath from 1895–1905, leaving a son and two daughters: Nicolas, Grp Capt RAF (1911–2006), married Winnifred, daughter of Major Henry Cooper, leaving seven children; Sheila M. (d. 1953), married Raymond O'Neill SC, leaving four children; Margaret (1909–2008), Convent of the Sacred Heart; Clementia (d. 1969), married Phillip Frank of East Carleton Manor, Norfolk, became Tindal-Carill-Worsley, by Royal Licence. leaving two sons and one daughter Geoffrey, Air Commodore, Married 1st Berys Gilmour, left a son, Philip Nicolas. Peter, Lt Col, married Rosemary Lloyd Davidson and has a son and daughter; Elizabeth, married Richard Holland. Acton, early winter sports pioneer at Davos, died unmarried; Reginald Darwin (4 April 1818 – 1892) Emma Elizabeth Darwin (27 February 1820 – 22 December 1898), married Edward Woollett Wilmot in 1842. Edward Levett Darwin (12 April 1821 – 1901) Frances Sarah Darwin (19 July 1822 – 1881), married Gustavus Barton in 1845, widowed 1846 and remarried to Marcus Huish (the father of the art dealer Marcus Bourne Huish) in 1849. Georgiana Elizabeth Darwin (12 August 1823 – 1902), married Rev.