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therefore, were immediately put into Ji 

 pot, with the addition of a large quantity 

 of water, and made into a kind of foup, 

 of which each partook as far as it would 

 go *, but we had no fooner thrown this 

 down than we were feized with the moft 

 painful ficknefs at our ftomachs, vio- 

 lent reachings, fwoonings, and other 

 fymptoms of being poifoned. This was 

 imputed to various caufes, but in gene- 

 ral to the herbs we made ufe of, in the 

 nature and quality of which we fan- 

 cied ourfelves miftaken ; but a little fur- 

 ther enquiry let us into the real occa- 

 fion of it, which was no other than 

 this : the bifcuit duft was the fweepings 

 of the bread-room, but the bag in which 

 they were put had been a tobacco bag^ 

 the contents of which not being intirely 

 taken out, what remained mixed with 

 the bifcuit-duft, and proved a ftrong 

 emetic. 



We 



