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produced from her leathern pocket a piece of cocoa grease, and dipping 
it into the brandy, began to anoint G.’s shoulders with it, harangue- 
ing all the time on the intimate connection between the shoulders 
and the lungs, and saying that whoever wished to cure the latter 
should begin by cooling the former. Having operated for a quarter 
of an hour, she suffered the patient to lie down ; and taking a bundle 
of cachanlangue (herb centaury) from the boy, desired me to infuse 
half of it in boiling water, and give the tea occasionally ; and the other 
half was to be placed in a glass of spirits, and the shoulders to be 
occasionally whipped with it. She assured me that the pulse would go 
down and the hemorrhage cease by degrees, by constant use of the 
herb. She also gave me a bundle of wild carrot, of which she di- 
rected me to make a tisane, well sweetened, to be drank occasionally, 
and then, having given a history of similar cases cured by her pre- 
scriptions, to which she sometimes adds an infusion of the leaves of 
vinagrillo (yellow wood-sorrel, with a thick fleshy leaf), she took 
leave. 
9th.— One cannot attend to private concerns two days together. 
This morning I learn that the squadron is in such a state from want, 
that a delegate has been sent to the supreme government ; and that 
the captains serving in the Chileno ships have addressed a serious 
letter to it, setting forth their claims, their sufferings, and the injustice 
done them.* In other respects, things are quieter; and it seems 
as if patience were allowing time for the effect of the remon- 
“strances. 
Lord Cochrane and Captain Crosbie came in the evening; and as 
we never talk politics while drinking tea and eating bread and 
honey, we had at least one pleasant hour without thinking of go- 
vernments, or mutinies, or injustice of any kind,— a rare blessing 
here, when two or three are together. There are so few people here, 
and all those are so directly interested in these matters, that it is not 
* See Appendix for this remonstrance, communicated to me shortly after it was for- 
warded to government by one of the captains; and also for the letter on the same sub- 
ject addressed to the Admiral by the lieutenants of the squadron. 
