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tliat many lepers are very immoderate in venery, 



moments before they expire, and that -efpecially the elephantlafis 



^efcribed by Aretasus and Paulus iEgineta, had fome fymptoms 



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that are perfectly correfponding with thofe pointed out by the 

 natives. We could fee no perfon at the time of our arrival 

 infeded with 'tha?t diftemper, otherwife wo fliould have inquired 

 more accurately into its particular iymptoms. And I do not intend 



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to be politive that the difeafe was communicated to the natives by 

 •the people* in the Spanifli fhip; far if an uncommon didemper 

 fhould happen to break out at the time of the arrival, or ftay of 

 fome Grangers in a country, the gangers have often been accufed 

 of having given the infedion, though they very little deferved 



iuch a charge. 



When Captain Cook came in the year 1769, in the Endeavour 



to O-Taheitee, he found that half his crew when he left the 

 Society-ifles, were infeded with the venereal difeafe, * and it was 

 then fufpeded that Mr, Bougainville's ihip's crew had communicated 

 this difeafe. Mr. de Bougainville in his turn fufpeds the Englifh 

 in tlie Dolphin to have iirft introduced it : f and the gentlemen 



never had one man infeded with the 



die Dolphin affert they 



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leaft venereal fymptom whilfl they were at Taheitee or immediately 



R r r afterwards , 



* See Havvkefworth, vok iu p, 233. • 



•f See Bougauivilk's "Voyage. Englifh tyanflation, p. 274, and 2S6. 



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