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FOOTNOTES:[A]A florin, of sixty kreutzers, is worth about 2s.English money.[B]Even in the favorable season of the year, very few strangers escape the intermittent fever. Mr. Lambert had a slight attack of it on the second day of our arrival at Tananariva, and afterward both he and I suffered terribly from it.

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[A]A florin, of sixty kreutzers, is worth about 2s.English money.

[B]Even in the favorable season of the year, very few strangers escape the intermittent fever. Mr. Lambert had a slight attack of it on the second day of our arrival at Tananariva, and afterward both he and I suffered terribly from it.

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