THE DISEASES OF THE CREW. 345 



CHAP. XII. 



VOYAGE FROM THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE TO CRONSTADT. 

 FLUXUS PANCREALIS, BILIOUS FEVER, CATARRH. 



In Table Bay, during a high wind, with very dry 

 air, the Tartar was again seized with pain and 

 hardness in the stomach, with sickness and vomit- 

 ing, and tenesmus, accompanied with strong dis- 

 charges, mixed with blood. At the same time, 

 another sailor, (the same who had had the cough 

 with spitting of blood in the Kamtschatka Sea,) was 

 attacked with the same disease, which I cannot but 

 consider as Fhw pancreatis. Bitters and stomach- 

 ics only increased the evil ; I, therefore, had 

 recourse to the tamarind-fruit, upon which the 

 hardness of the stomach daily lessened, as well as 

 the sickness, and the tenesmus soon ceased. 

 The last sailor was so well at the commencement 

 of the S.E. monsoon, that he took stomachic medi- 

 cines without injury, and was soon entirely re- 

 covered. 



The Tartar, however, could neither get rid of 

 his sickness at the stomach, nor bear strengthen- 

 ing remedies ; and, therefore, as he was still weak 

 when we ;vj)proached iSt. Helena, the neighbour- 

 hood of land had a very bad eiiect on him. The 



