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after their arrival in Jamaica, they evidently began 

 to decline ; their blood was converted into urine ; 

 they paid no sort of attention to the cows, who 

 were confined in the same paddock; and at the 

 end of a fortnight not one was in existence, two 

 having died upon the same day. The injured one, 

 having been bled the most copiously in conse- 

 quence of its hurt, was that which survived the 

 longest. 



January 81. 



Some days ago, a negro woman, who has lost 

 four children, and has always been a most affec- 

 tionate mother, brought the fifth, a remarkably fine 

 infant, into the hospital. She complained of its 

 having caught cold, a fever, and so on ; but 

 nothing administered was of use, and its manner of 

 breathing made the doctor enquire, whether the 

 child had not had a fall ? The mother denied this 

 most positively, and her fondness for the infant 

 admitted no doubt of her veracity. Still the child 

 grew worse and worse ; still the question about the 

 fall was repeated, and as constantly denied ; until 

 luckily being made in the presence of a new-comer, 

 the latter immediately exclaimed, u that to her 

 certain knowledge the infant had really had a fall, 

 for that the mother having fastened it behind her 

 back, the knot of the handkerchief had slipped, 

 and the baby had fallen upon the floor." — " It is 

 false," answered the mother : " the child did not 

 fall ; for when the knot slipped, I had time to catch 



