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of the night on the reef, when they are fifhing, or perhaps being too arts 



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ilightly covered during night in their own houfes. sciences 



Another difeafe was more common among the natives of thefe 

 ifles, which has various degrees and ftadia, but in its utmoft 



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height and inveteracy feems to be a real kind of Lefrojy : its 



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ilightefl degree, is a kind of fcaly exfoliation of the ikin, of a 



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whitifh, or often a white colour. Sometimes the whole body was 



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covered with it, fometimes only one leg, fometimes both or the 

 back only were affected with it ; or perhaps only a few detached 

 blotches on the body had this appearance. However we moft 

 diftinguifh from this fymptom, two other appearances ; the one 

 when we faw the bodies of the natives white and covered with' a 

 difagreeable roughnefs -, and this being new to us, we im.agined 

 it might be fome difeafe, but they foon undeceived us, by faying 



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it was only fea fait, for the moment before they had b 



fwimming in the fea, which we did not know. The fecond 

 phsenomenon is caufed by the too frequent ufe cf the before-men- 

 tioned inebriating liquor prepared from the pepper- root : in this 



. cafe tlie fkin looks as if it had been parched and dried by hait 



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and winds, it has a blackifh appearance, and fcales are even now 



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and then feparated from it. The eyes of people who ufe this liquor' 

 too freely are commonly red, inflamed, and fore, the body grov/s 



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gradually emaciated,^ and the inhabitants become ftupid, infirm, 



and;. 



