This was no doubt owing to the want of milk or other equally nourishing food.

Rice-water, rice, and biscuits were but a poor substitute, and the expressed milk of the cocoa-nut which I sometimes gave it did not quite agree with its stomach.

To this I imputed an attack of diarrhoea from which the poor little creature suffered greatly, but a small dose of castor-oil operated well, and cured it.

A week or two afterwards it was again taken ill, and this time more seriously.

The symptoms were exactly those of intermittent fever, accompanied by watery swellings on the feet and head.