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heard our difcourfe, and tried to get up, when he found th 



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had the fame fymptomS which I experienced 



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fent fop our 



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furgeon Mr. Pat ton, who prefcribed us plenty of 

 in order to free the flomach of any remains of this dang 



warm water 



diet 



and then gave us fome diaphoretic; 

 reflored us to our former health 

 head, the numbnefs of our hand 



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and falts, which in a few days 



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though the giddinefs of the 

 and feet, a conftant chillnefs.. 



and fome few pains were not quite removed till after about eio-ht 



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days. A dog which had eaten the remainder of the fried 



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hog given me by an old man at Tanna, which had 



, fell likewife very fick, and the 



and 



devoured the garbage of the fifh 



latter died the next day. Several natives coming on board, faw 



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was 



the fifli hanging, and gave us to underftand by figns, that it 

 unwholfome food, for they pointed to their ftomach,, and Shewed 

 that it caufed pains there, and. afterwards laid their hand, to the 



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cheek and ear, and made a motion of the head 



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if they 



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going to flcep. I ^e\%ntdi not to comprehend the meaning of thefe 

 flgns, an4 as if I believed they wanted the fifh to eat, I ordered it 



; but they fhewed the mofl unequivocal figns. 



be given 



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pf abhorrence,, when it was offered to them 



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