Introduction

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"What caused us greater concern was the intelligence that met us upon entering the Lake, namely, that the men deputed by our Conductor for the purpose of summoning the Nations to the North Sea, and assigning then, a rendezvous, where they were to await out coming, had met their death in a very strange matter way last winter.
Those poor men, according The the report given to us, were seized by a ailment unknown to us, but not very unusual among e people we were seeking. They were afflicted with neither lunacy, hypochondria, nor frenzy; but have a combination of all these species of disease, which affects their imaginations, and caused a more canine hunger.
This makes them so ravenous for human flesh that they pounce upon women, children, and even men, like veritable werewolves, and devour them voraciously, without being able to appease or guilt there appetite-ever seeking fresh prey, and the more greedy they get the more they eat. This ailment attacked our deputies; and, as death is the sole remedy among those simple people for checking such acts of murder, they were slain in order to stay the course of their madness."

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