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table, were combined with an apathy and lassitude ' 
which resisted all attempts at healthy excitement. 
These, of course, were not confined to the crew .< 
alone ; out of twenty-four men, but five were without ^ 
ulcerated gums and blotched limbs ; and of these five, 
strange to say, four were cooks and stewards. All the 
officers were assailed. Old pains were renewed, old 
wounds opened ; even old bruises and sprains, received 
at barely-remembered periods back, came to us like 
dreams. Our commander, certainly the finest consti- 
tution among us, was assailed like the rest. In a few 
days purpuric extravasations appeared on his legs, and 
a dysentery enfeebled him to an extent far from safe. 
An old wound of my own became discolored, and, cu- 
rious to say, painful only at such points of old suppu- 
ration, three in number, as had been relieved by the 
knife. The seats of a couple of abscess-like openings 
were entirely unafiected and free from pain. 
The close of the month found this state of things on 
the increase, and the strength of the party still waning. 
B£MAINS OF i. SERQ, 
