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fweet fmell, refembling that of the apple called d’apis: 
he took and eat of them, without knowing what they 
were; he found they hadafubacid tafe; and having 
eaten a couple of dozen of them, he fil’d his poc- 
kets, and came home, eating the ref as he came. 
The Negroes, that law him eat this cruel fruit, told 
him it was mortal; upon which he ceafed to eat them, 
and threw away the reft. 
About four in the afternoon, viz-, an hour after this 
repalt, his belly fwelled confderably, and he felt as 
it were a conluming fre in his bowels. He could 
not keep himfelf upright ; and at night the fwelling 
of his belly increafed, with the burning fenfation of 
his bowels. His lips were ulcerated with the milk of 
the fruit, and he was fcized with cold fweats; but my 
principal Negro made him a decodtion of the leaves of 
a Ricinus* in water, and made him drink plentiful- 
ly of it, which brought on a vomiting, followed by a 
violent purging ; both which continued for four hours, 
during which it was thought he would die. At length 
thefe fymptoms grew lei's; and my Negroes made him 
walk, and fir about by degrees ; and foon after they 
were fopped. Rice-gruel, which they gave him, 
put an end to all thefe diforders ; and in four-and- 
twenty hours he had no more ailments nor pain ; the 
fwelling of his belly dkninifhed in proportion to his 
evacuations upwards and downwards, and he has con- 
tinued his fundi ions without being any more fenfible 
of the poifon. We fee by this, that the eff edt s of the 
poifon of the Manchinelle are different from thole of 
the fifn at Guadaloupe, which I mentioned. 
Dec. 2. 1756. 
* Avcllana $urgc<uix ; in French, nudianur. 
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