Folio 34: Blank table 6. Folios 35-44: Surgeon's general remarks, includes date when...

ADM 101/154/3

1877

Folio 34: Blank table 6.

Folios 35-44: Surgeon's general remarks, includes date when the Surgeon was appointed to the ship, description of the ship, ventilation of the lower deck, description of the sick bay [folios 35-36]; routine and extra issues on board the ship, passage from Madeira to Bahia and defects of ship's machinery [folios 36-37]; the prevalence of yellow fever, negligent performance of quarantine at Bahia [folios 37-38]; yellow fever amongst shipping, treatment of yellow fever [folios 38-39]; passage from Bahia to Simon's Bay, dirty state of Simon's Town, preparation of Naval Brigade for service in Natal, prevalence of venereal disease [folio 40]; remarks on common fever [folio 41]; remarks on general diseases within nosological returns [folios 42-44].

Folios 45-46: Table showing date and place where temperatures between decks was recorded, together with the number of sick in hospital from 1 July to 12 December 1878.

Folios 47-52: Alphabetical sick list.

Folios 54-55: Blank.

Folios 56-85: Paper on the Zulus and Kaffirs, included three colour drawings, depicting Zulu arms [folio 57], Zulus and Kaffirs marriage ring, ear pierced for snuff box and 'Mootie' (medicine) necklace [folio 58] and Moochie, Noochie and Mueto [folio 58A]. Introduction (folio 59); Kaffirs and Zulus their resemblance (folio 60); general appearance (folio 60); height (folios 60-61); activity and endurance (folio 61); speeches (folios 61-61A); endurance of pain (folios 61A-63); deformed Kaffirs very rarely seen (folio 63); enormous appetite (folio 63); diet (folios 63-64); drink (folio 64); mode of cooking -tit bits (folios 64-65); snuff its general use, how prepared (folio 65); smoking, pipe (folios 65-66); manner of smoking and its effects, improvised pipe (folio 66); dress, moochie, noochie, mueto and want of clothing (folios 67-68); modes of hairdressing (folio 68); marriage ring (folios 68-69); dress of women and girls, married women (folios 69-70); alteration in appearance after marriage, becoming very thin, happy and contented, hardworked (folio 70); indolence of the men (folio 71); Kaffir language (folio 71); Kraals, floor, furniture (folios 71-72); cattle kraal (folios 72-73); arms, shield, their warlike propensities, bad shots (folios 73-75); cattle and polygamy (folio 75); marriage laws (folio 75); suffered chastity (folios 75-76); chaste but not moral (folio 76); schlebonga (folio 76); faithful wives (folio 76); witchcraft (folios 76-77); ideas on the subject of a future state (folio 77); no respect for the dead (folios 77-78); custom of ripping up the abdomen of the slain (folio 78); honesty, honesty not improved by association with whites (folios 78-79); bravery of Zulus (folios 79-80); fear of the Zulus inherent in the Kaffirs (folio 80); making of good troops (folios 80-81); cleanly in their persons (folio 81); diseases and remedies (folio 81); tapeworm (folios 81-82); fond of nauseous medicine, turpentine (folio 82); syphilis and gonorrhoea (folio 82); fever (folios 82-83); astonishment at catheterism (folio 83); moohi necklaces (folio 83); medicine men (folios 83-84); peculiar markings (folio 84); use of emetics and enemata (folio 84); strange procedures, herbs (folios 84-85); conclusion (folio 85).

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