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CHAP, prefented himfelf before the beneficent Abba Tlmlle ; 
' — ^ — J and probably by obtaining a flock of freili provifions 
and vegetables might have preferved the lives of many 
of his companions, and prevented the fufierings of the 
rell ; but he was not fortunate enough to know that fo 
propitious a retreat was within fo fmall a diftance. 
His people were doomed to find their diilrefles aug- 
mented inRead of diminiilied. Towards the latter end of 
September, agues and intermittent fevers began to prevail 
among them; the proportion of thofe difabled by the 
fcurvy was conilantly great, fome deaths had happened, 
and the few men who ftiil had health enough to carry 
them with difficulty through the necefiary duty, were 
fubjeft to the fwelling of the legs, and harraffed by violent 
pains in the breaft. Hitherto the Friendiliip had been 
September 2 J, much morc happily circumftauced. On the 23d of Sep- 
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tember flie was fpoken to, and had then only one man 
difabled by the fcurvy : but this advantage was of iliort 
duration, and the more rapid increafe of the malady 
made a fatal compenfation for the greater delay of its 
commencement. 
September 27, Ou the 27th of September, about noon, the Alexander 
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made the land of Mindanao. It bore from weft by 
north to north-weft by weft, diftant fourteen leagues. 
Fart of it was remarkably high, and at this diftance ap- 
- ^ peared 
