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lome and very plcafant, compofed of brandy, 

 vinegar, fugar, and water, had been daily fervcd 

 out to the /hips' companies towards the end of 

 this paflage. The fhip had been fumigated twice 

 a day. The greatefl care had been taken to 

 make the tailors change their clothes, whenever 

 they got wet ; and it was a fatisfaclion to fee 

 that lb many precautions had not been employed 

 in vain. 



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