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■afterwards his tefticles began to fwell infenfibly, without in- 
flammation, pain, or any other inconvenience. They increafed 
gradually, though flowly, and became home years after of fuch 
a bulk, that he was neither able to walk nor perform his ufual 
work. That he might, however, not be quite idle, as he was 
otherwife a flout and able fellow, he ufed to cut bars of iron 
into pieces of a foot long, which bear a certain price at Senegal, 
and go among the blacks like current money. This he could 
do fitting with a chifel and hammer, and a fmall anvil placed 
before him on the ground, his legs bent under him, and the 
big fcrotum refling on the ground. Mr. bishopp had feen him 
perform this work for many years ; at laft, however, the fcro- 
tum increafed to fuch a degree, that the great bulk prevented 
him from doing it any longer. From the time that the difor- 
der had firft begun to fhew itfelf to the time I faw him, five 
and twenty years had elapfed ; he was alive when I left the 
Aland in February, 1779, and may be fo now. 
This man was the one I ever faw affli&ed with this difeafe at 
Senegal ; but I am credibly informed, that it is endemial in a 
country which goes, among the blacks at Senegal, by the ge- 
neral name of Galam, and of which this man was a native. 
This country lies eaft of Senegal, at the difiance of about nine 
hundred Englilh miles, and its inhabitants are called Bambaras. 
I have been told by thofie inhabitants of Senegal, who go 
annually in the rainy feafon in a fleet of fmall craft to Galam 
for trade, that this difeafe is particularly common among the 
chiefs or noblemen of that country, who are ftyled in their 
own country language Batcherees ; and that they have large 
wooden bowls, fixed on the fore- part of the laddie, into which 
they place the big fcrotum when they take a ride on horle-back. 
Though this latter circumfiance feem a little romantic, yet as 
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