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in order that Petersen might have a chance
of following rabbit tracks up Mary River
he succeeded in shooting one large
male and a couple of Ptarmagan, thus
giving our sick a good allowance for one
day more. Bonsall and Kane for
John now has utterly given in toiled all
day, and when the work was over read
ten o'clock. Bonsall snores and Kane
keeps his usual vigil. Petersen who as
hunter gets his hot dish of the spoils has
been snoring this four hours.

Hans has not come. Mr. Brooks
reported to day a threat, by William Godfrey
the Deserter, upon my life, two witnesses
sustaining it: I have no time nor inclination
to detail it here.

Sick improving in the Old Cases,
worse in the more recent. A strange condition
of skin evidently connected with scurvy has
prevailed more or less for the last three
weeks. It consists of an erythematous irruption
not unlike urticaria, breaking out
and receeding, frequently during the twenty
four hours. It is intolerable in its itching
and sometimes accompanied by hive-like
symptoms, whelk like elevations and excessive
depression and nausea. Often the skin, except
the follicular elevations of cutis anserina,
presents no eruptive appearance. Now am I
able to analyse the primary form. A
few papules have been detected upon the
softer expansions of perineum & axilla and
in three out of ten cases true herpes on
the penis. I suffer among the rest
and am at no loss to connect the condition
with certain symptoms of scurvy,
which I need not here mention