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the contrary, who was naturally indolent, 
averfe to drinking the raindeer blood, 
and unwilling to leave the hnt when he 
could pofTibly avoid it, was, foon after 
their arrival on the ifland, fcized with 
the fcurvy, which afterwards became fo 
bad, that he pafled almoft fix years under 
the greateft furTbrings : in the latter part 
of that time, he became fo weak that he 
could no longer fit erect, nor even raife 
his hand to his mouth ; fo that his humane 
companions were obliged to feed and 
tend him, like a new-born infant, to the 
hour of his death (a), 
I have 
(a) Though I have intimated my doubts ref- 
pe&ing the antiicorbutic virtue of raw frozen Beth, 
and the warm blood of raindeer, vet thefe things are 
not unworthy of confederation; for, in the firfr. 
volume of Voyages and Difccvcries made by the Ruffian: y 
along the Coajis of the Frozen Sea and Eajlern Ocean, 
&c. publifhed by Counfeilor Miller, I find the 
inhabitants of North Siberia cat raw frozen fifh 
as a preservative againft the fcurvy. The pa> 
fage alluded to occurs in pages IQ4, 195. ct Cur 
*' people wintered at the mouth of the river Cko- 
