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diftorted leg 

 and dried up 



and 



man had a leg that was 



ly withered 



Among the robuft New-Zeelanders, I faw 



man 



B 



as we were, efpecially 



and had 



of a fine figure with a lame hand. 



the beginning, very little acquainted with their languag 



•eat deal of other bufinefs upon our hands, W€ could m 

 minutely enquire into all the caufes and particulars of thefe impe 



g 



fedlions 



I faw one man- at Huahein 



who had 



very g 



and the 



and this man 



Hernia umbilicalis, and another in the fame place with an immenfe 

 cxpanfion and fchiVrofity of the right teflicle, which was grown to 

 the fize of a child's head> fa that all the fcrotum, and even the 

 membrane over the penis was entirely filled up with 

 aperture for making water, was driven to one fide, 

 was neverthelefs adive, flrong, and mounted the fides of our ihip 

 with as great agility and unconcern, as if he were not 

 affeded by this dreadful accident. 



Among the difeafes which we had an^ opportunity of obferving 

 in thefe nations, I muft firfi: reckon the cough: feveral laboured 



A, 



under it, efpecially towards night and in the morning i owing, as 



ins or the cool 



the kail 



probable, to their being too long expofed to cold r 



Gf 



filled during nigKt, in order to free the inhabitants of the numerous moiquitoes fwantiing m 

 thefe marfliy woods ; there are likewife fome kinds of wood, whofe fmoak makes people 



ither entirely blind, or at leaft nearly deprives them of their eyc-fight. Sec Ofbccks 

 * voyage, vol. i. p. 320* 



