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But, however, tliat sort of liquor had so chilled 



md Immibei tljeir ttti they could 



ndik&t go nor s^d ^ 2i«>r 6t>tild they tetiim 



on honrd the shii), ■vvithoiit the help of tliose 

 Avhnluul not ))een partakers in tlie frolic ; nor did 

 they recover it under four or live days' time." 



The ijontinued use of the water contained in 

 the yo^ng &t ^0CO€fc-imt9, is 0^6 &i the 



causes attrihutftdt (alAotJ^il I am incliued to 

 etnisider if an erroneous opinion,) to produce 

 the scrotal enlargements, 6cc. so often seen among 

 nutiym of intertropical regions, more particu- 

 larly tho^ resldf^nt dn iM tm^. 



In a letter puhlished in the Sydney Herald, 

 of January 14th 1833, it is said, The natives 

 of Tahiti alone, make forty or fifty tons of cocoa- 

 nut oil in tlie year, and itll the at&a$ islands of 

 tihe grdiips inWke a& eqml p76|MMton* They sell 

 it for calico, that costs about twopence-halfpenny 

 per Vfird in England, and recrive a fathom for 

 four or fn e gallons. But the owners of vessels 

 from this colony, (^\cw South Wales,) find some- 

 thing mote lm!9^v$r fot flbi^jf pipping than 

 sendlitf ^eui $0 ik^ Mmd^, atzidf i3m natiTei^dre 

 discouraged at having no trade. The indigenous 

 arrow-root remains undng, and the cocoa-nuts 

 fall to the ground, and rot/' That the quantity 



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