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of an inch higher than the reft of the body. The whole was of arts 

 a deep livid red,, and. the elevated margins towards' X^^. extremities 

 were of a nafty yellow colour : it -was not a running fore, though 

 it had much tjbie appearance of it; - The natives have no peculiar 

 name for this or any, other diforders that caufe ulcers, plmples„.. 

 or eruptions, all are promifcuoufly called e-poeov fores-. I obferved - 



at Tahuy. ^O-Raiedeay , "l^ n ga-%ab b u^i- ^n^ ^t New-Galedonia 



mea^^ 



with one or both leg 



ged to a monftrous fize; the limb 



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entirely.livid and felt hard,, and the tumour; was confined chiefly; 

 to the interval .between- the knee and inftep; .though it -ex tended^* 

 fbmewhat up .the thigh, ,and^ 



even to the toes : hov/ever the lee 



was more fwelled in proportion than any other . parts. Not with 

 ftanding this, I obferved the men could walk 



and did not ' 



he.fl tate to wade through the fea- water almoft up. to their waift;, , 



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and felt no other inconvenience as far as we.could obferve,, than that'- 



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they had a difficulty of breathing. This feems to be. a kind of 



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elephantiafis, fuch as fome people have in the Eaft Indies on the 



coaft of Malabar 



At Nev/- Caledonia, I faw 



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having an arm enlarged in the fame, manner 



Whert: - 



Jirumcjt'h 



dd-St. Thon 

 furlii maladi 



MiJcelL Maiu Phfis . Unu 



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