They being newcomers, free from the western morgue so soon caught by Oriental Europeans, were particularly civil to me, even wishing to mix me a strong draught; but I was not so fortunate with all on board.
A morgue is a building or a room in a hospital where dead bodies are kept before they are buried or cremated, or before they are identified or examined. = mortuary
A place to where bodies found dead are removed and exposed pending identification by relatives