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zeal to serve one had already stared to skin them - local fashion- thus spoiling them for specimens.
However, for my purpose of a postmortem they were all right. I took the ships doctor with me, Dr Lloyd Thomas, who on [[?]] the opened bodies with me agreed that death was due to [[inauitions?]] lack of food; starved to death.
There was not a trace of fat left in the tissues under the skin, nor on the muscles. [[?]] leanness of the carcas was very noticable.
Both of us, afterwards, [[strikethrough]] called special attention to [[/strikethrough]] commented upon the plumpness of the average pup as they appeared in the
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