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neatly cut, and produced fruit and vegetables of many 

 fpecies for our ufe. The hoiifes and bridges were alfo 

 all repaired, while the ilricSteft adherence to cleanlinefs 

 was recommended and enforced among the men : by 

 thefe means not one fick perfoQ out of fifty was now to 

 be found, where floth, flench, and difeafe had fo lately 

 fpread their deftrudive influence, and to which the land 

 and fea-fcurvy had given the moft fatal affiftance. Of 

 the above fcorbutic complaints, the former covers the 

 body over with blotches, and the latter chiefly afFedts the 

 teeth and gum.5. 



I now enjoyed the greateft flow of health and fpirits, 

 while mod of my old iliip-mates were either dead or re- 

 turned to Europe ; not a lingle officer at this time being 

 in rank above me, except only fuch as had been formerly 

 inured to the Weft India climate. 



But to return to my garden — this at prefent exhibited 

 carrots, cabbages, onions, cucumbers, lettuces, radiilies, 

 pepper, creffes, Sic. all thriving as v/ell as in Europe ; 

 befides forrel of two kinds, the common and the red, this 

 laft grows upon a flirub, and is excellent for making jam 

 or marmalade. The jeffamine alfo was found here of 

 different fpecies, that growing on a fmall tree being moft 

 admired : it is of a pale but beautiful red colour, and a 

 mofl agreeable fmell ; the leaves are thick, lliining, and 

 filled with a mjilky juice. A fpecies of fenfitive fhrub 

 they call ^pjame - Jhame, grew alfo here, as did the fieep- 

 ing plantj fb called from its leaves, which are fet in pairs, 



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