Note 118 — CHAP. III.
Reading edition
See page 345. A fact mentioned in Capt. Cooke’s Voyage to the North Pacific Ocean, may be also alledged in favour of this opinion. He remarks, that the Kamschadales, who were habituated to hard labour, were free from scurvy, while the Russians and Cossacks, who were in garrison in their country, and led indolent lives, were subject to it.