Note 343 — Chapter XII
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Similarly, Captain Phillips relates to us that the uxorious old “King of Whidaw,” when about to marry (probably a 3000th wife), applied to him for a rundlet of brandy, as a Christmas present for the bride’s friends and his “cappashiers,” and for a “strong-back medicine” for himself. He sent the ship’s surgeon, who gave him a dose of cantharides, “which so heated the old man’s reins that he became as it were, a youngster once more,” and on the next morning related to the strangers various impertinences.