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with them to the ifland. Of this they had 
confumed about one half with their meat; 
the 
" juft killed." " The hunting after thefe ani- 
" ma'.s requires a continual exercife. None ever 
" keeps in his hut during the day, unlefs the ftormy 
" weather, or too great quantities of fnow, hinder 
(( them from making their ufual excurfions." 
When I read to Mr. S. Batigne the account 
which I now lay before the public, he told me, he 
was inclined to believe that the blood of raindeer, 
if drunk quite warm, might be a great prcfervativc 
againft, and even a cure for the fcurvy, preventing 
anddifperfing, by its refolvent nature, all thofe vif- 
cuous concretions, which give rife to a diforder that 
proceeds chiefly from a want of proper circulation in 
the juices; which at length brings on putrefaction, 
and infecls the whole mafs of the blood. Among 
other proofs, he grounded his opinion on what 
fome voyagers to the Weft-Indies relate, that when 
the fcurvy rages amongft a fhip's crew, they dire&ly 
make for one of the Torture, or Turtle I/lands, fo 
called from the great number of thofe animals found 
there. The patients feeding plcntifullv on them, 
from the quantity of their blood, and its balfamic 
quality, find them remarkably wholcfomc. — This 
is farther confirmed by a prevailing cuftom in the 
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