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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 tfie 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 Avound 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 unaffected 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. 
Of A tiiaa. 
