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rays of the sun had such an effect on the two 

 Aleutians, brought from Oonalashka, and some 

 weak Kamtschadales, that they were ill for several 

 days of nervous fevers; which, however, were 

 neither violent nor of long duration. 



Another Aleutian, who came on board when 

 we were at Kamtschatka, suffered from the small 

 itching eruption common in hot climates, with a 

 slight fever. This eruption consists in little round 

 blisters, (without heads,) filled with a transparent, 

 not watery fluid, which itch only at the commence- 

 ment, at which the skin of the whole part affected 

 is reddish. At the beginning they may be re- 

 moved by the use of the common salts. But if they 

 have been neglected for some weeks, they require 

 sudorifics. 



The last day but one before we left the bay of 

 St. Francisco, a very melancholy accident happen- 

 ed, which I cannot pass over in silence, though a 

 narrative of such cases does not properly belong to 

 the object of this report. One of the three Rus- 

 sians, who here entered on board the ship, a man 

 of above fifty, a lover of the chase, set out, in the 

 forenoon of the last day but one of our stay in the 

 bay, with his gun, to shoot wild geese, in a pond 

 not very far from tiie Presidio. In the afternoon, 

 some natives of the country found him helpless on 

 the ground, groaning, and weltering in his blood. 

 They immediately gave information at the Presidio, 

 upon which persons went out and brought him 



