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and I am very sure he would if he had met with it, 

 and that is the manchihneel, to which I have already 

 alluded. 



Many years later another distinguished English- 

 man, no less a personage than Lord Nelson, was badly 

 poisoned by drinking water from a pool near which 

 the manchihneel grew. He suffered so severely that 

 he was obliged to leave his ship and go home to re- 

 cruit his health. 





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Distant View of Tobago. 



