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 SCIENCES 



When we arrive 



SpaniHi fhip had b 



d at O-Taheitee in 

 ^en there a few mon 



773 



we 



lear 



that 



a 



before 



which the 



natives called Pahce no Pefe or Peppe's fhip 



To whofe com 



mander they gave the name 



Errire-, and by this fliip 



crew 



a 



difeafe had been 



oduced among them, which they called 



f 



e-pce-no-peppey Peppe's difeafe 



Hop 



or 



fore. 



VIQ 



heard from Mr. C 



At the Cape of Good 

 Captain of a French Eall- 



India fhip, and from the ofHcers on board the Frigate Juno, in 

 the Spanilh fervice, under the command of Don Juan Arraos, 

 that in the year 1773, Capt. Don Juan de Langara y Huarte had 

 ht^n with two Spanifh fliips upon difcoveries in the South Seas, 

 and had touched at Taheitee. The natives reprefented to us, that 



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the difeafe of o-Peppe c^^3.'kd ulcers, difficulty of breathing, a falling 



'-a 



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off of the hair, and laflly death ; and that it had been communi- 

 cated by co-habitation with women. We fufpeded this at firfl to 

 be a venereal difeafe, but upon a further confideration, I am apt to 



believe, that as 



Spanifli fhip came from Lima 



d Callao 



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•where a great number of negro flaves are kept, who are frequently 

 and chiefly fubjed: to the various kinds of leprofis and elephantiafiSj 

 it might perhaps have happened that one or more of the crew 

 might be infeded with that kind of elephantiafis, which ihey 

 communicated to the natives of thefe ifles : for it is well known, 



that.fome fpecies of leprofy may be communicated by -cohabitation, 



that 



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