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motion of the ſhip. The excruciating pain which the poor ſufferers feel from being ob(illegible text)d to continue in ſuch a dreadful ſituation, frequently for ſeveral weeks, in caſe they happen to live ſo long, is not to be con(illegible text)ved or deſcribed. Few, indeed, are ever (illegible text)e to withſtand the fatal effects of it. The (illegible text)oſt ſkill of the ſurgeon is here ineffectual. If plaiſters be applied; they are very (illegible text)n diſplaced by the friction of the ſhip; when bandages are uſed, the negroes (illegible text)y ſoon take them off, and appropriate (illegible text)m to other purpoſes.
Almoſt the only means by which the surgeon can render himſelf uſeful to the (illegible text)es, is by ſeeing that their food is properly cooked, and diſtributed among them. (illegible text)s true, when they arrive near the mar(illegible text)s for which they are deſtined, care is (illegible text)en to poliſh then for ſale, by an application of the lunar cauſtic to ſuch as are (illegible text)ceted with the yaws. This, however, (illegible text)ords but a temporary relief, as the diſeaſe moſt aſſuredly breaks out, whenever the patient is put upon a vegetable diet.
The loſs of ſlaves, through mortality, (illegible text)ing from the cauſes juſt mentioned, are frequently very conſiderable. One half, sometimes two thirds, and even beyond that, have been known to periſh. On the Windward coaſt, where ſlaves are procured ſlow(illegible text) very few die, in proportion to the
