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produced from her leathern pocket a piece of cocoa grease, and dipping 

 it into the brandy, began to anoint G.'s shoulders with it, harangue- 

 ins all the time on the intimate connection between the shoulders 

 and the lungs, and saying that whoever wished to cure the latter 

 should begin by cooling the former. Having operated for a quarter 

 of an hour, she suffered the patient to lie down ; and taking a bundle 

 of cachanlangue {herb centaury) from the boy, desired me to infuse 

 half of it in boiling water, and give the tea occasionally ; and the other 

 half was to be placed in a glass of spirits, and the shoulders to be 

 occasionally whipped with it. She assured me that the pulse would go 

 down and the hemorrhage cease by degrees, by constant use of the 

 herb. She also gave me a bundle of wild carrot, of which she di- 

 rected me to make a tisane, well sweetened, to be drank occasionally, 

 and then, having given a history of similar cases cured by her pre- 

 scriptions, to which she sometimes adds an infusion of the leaves of 

 vinagrillo {yellow wood-sorrel, with a thick fleshy leaf), she took 

 leave. 



9th. — One cannot attend to private concerns two days together. 

 This morning I learn that the squadron is in such a state from want, 

 that a delegate has been sent to the supreme government ; and that 

 the captains serving in the Chileno ships have addressed a serious 

 letter to it, setting forth their claims, their sufferings, and the injustice 

 done them.* In other respects, things are quieter; and it seems 

 as if patience were allowing time for the effect of the remon- 

 strances. 



Lord Cochrane and Captain Crosbie came in the evening ; and as 

 we never talk politics while drinking tea and eating bread and 

 honey, we had at least one pleasant hour without thinking of go- 

 vernments, or mutinies, or injustice of any kind, — a rare blessing 

 here, when two or three are together. There are so few people here, 

 and all those are so directly interested in these matters, that it is not 



* See Appendix for this remonstrance, communicated to me shortly after it was for- 

 warded to government by one of the captains ; and also for the letter on the same sub- 

 ject addressed to the Admiral by the lieutenants of the squadron. 



