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however, audibly contrasted the present with the 

 past, and drew indecorous conclusions from the 

 change which a few days had worked in the man 

 who bore a 24 lb. gun with a 4 ounce ball. 



All thoughts of cruising along the southern 

 coast were thus at an end. Lieut. -Colonel 

 Hamerton had cautioned us not to despise bilious 

 remittents, and evidently we should not have 

 been justified in neglecting his advice to return 

 to the consulate whenever seized by sickness. 

 With the dawn of Priday, March 6, we ordered the 

 crew to up sail : we stood over for the island 

 with a fine fresh breeze, and early in the after- 

 noon we found ourselves once more within the 

 pale of eastern civilization. Our excellent friend 

 at once sent us to bed, where we remained for 

 the best part of a week : we did not recover 

 health till the end of the normal month. 



