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contrasted with our emaciated figures and 

 extreme debility, their frames appeared to 

 us gigantic, and their strength supernatural. 

 These kind creatures next turned their at- 

 tention to our personal appearance, and 

 prevailed upon us to shave and wash our- 

 selves. The beards oT the Doctor and 

 Hepburn had been untouched since they 

 left the sea-coast, and were become of a 

 hideous length, and peculiarly offensive to 

 the Indians. The Doctor and I suffered 

 extremely from distention, and therefore 

 ate sparingly.* Hepburn was getting better, 

 and Adam recovered his strength with 

 amazing rapidity. 



November 9. — This morning was plea- 



* The first alvine discharges after we received food, 

 were, as Hearne remarks on a similar occasion, at- 

 tended with excessive pain. Previous to the arrival 

 of the Indians, the urinary secretion was extremely 

 abundant, and we were obliged to rise from bed in 

 consequence upwards of ten times in a night. This 

 was an extreme annoyance in our reduced state. It 

 may, perhaps, be attributed to the quantity of the 

 country tea that we drank. 



