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peculiar scent even when alive, and is precisely 

 the quality which forms their recommendation. It 

 was quite enough to fix my opinion of the soup : 

 I ate two spoonfuls, and never mean to venture on 

 a third. 



March 1 c 2. 



The most general of negro infirmities appears to 

 be that of lameness. It is chiefly occasioned by 

 the chiga, a diminutive fly which works itself into 

 the feet to lay its eggs, and, if it be not carefully 

 extracted in time, the flesh around it corrupts, and 

 a sore ensues not easily to be cured. No vigilance 

 can prevent the attacks of the chiga ; and not only 

 soldiers, but the very cleanest persons of the highest 

 rank in society, are obliged to have their feet ex- 

 amined regularly. The negroes are all provided 

 with small knives for the purpose of extracting 

 them : but as no pain is felt till the sore is pro- 

 duced, their extreme laziness frequently makes 

 them neglect that precaution, till all kinds of dirt 

 getting into the wound, increases the difficulty of 

 a cure ; and sometimes the consequence is lameness 

 for life. 



There is another disease which commits great 

 ravages among them y for although in this climate 

 its quality is far from virulent, and it is easy to be 

 cured in its beginning, the negro will most care- 

 fully conceal his having such a complaint, till it 

 has made so great a progress that its effects are 



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