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and generally carried off something which she had picked up. 

 On one occasion, when coming up the ladder, she was tumbled off 

 by the surgeon, and falling on her back, pretended to faint ; from 

 which, although all the doctor could do could not recover her, she 

 was restored by the offer of an empty tin case, which had contained 

 preserved meat : a stratagem which she subsequently tried more 

 than once without success. She was about sixty years of age, five 

 feet two inches high, extremely ill-looking, and decidedly the most 

 disgusting of the whole tribe. 



