Hijlorie of the Indies, lib. 3, 



brccdc any further inconvenience. The other takes a- 

 way life without feeling of it. The .ficknes of the fca, 

 wherewith fuch are troubled as firft begin to go to fca, 

 is a matter very ordinary - and yet if the nature thereof 

 were vnknowne to men^vc (hould take it for the pangs 

 of death, feeing how itaffidte and torments while it 

 doth lad , by the cafting of the ftomacke, paine of the 

 head., and other troublefome accidents. Butintructh 

 this ficknes fo common and ordinarie , happens vn- 

 to men by the change of the aire and fea. For al 

 though it be true that the motion of the fliippc helpcs 

 much, in that it moves more orleffe : and likewife the 

 infedions and ill favors of things in the fliippc: yet the 

 proper and naturall caufe , is the aire and the vapors of 

 the fea , the which doth fo weaken and trouble the bo 

 dy and the ftomacke, which are no taccuftomcd there- 

 vnto , that they are wonderfully moved and changed: 

 for the aire is the Element > by which wee live and 

 breathe, drawingitinto our entrailes, the which we 

 bathe therewithall. And therefore there is nothing that 

 fbfuddenly , and with fo great force doth alter vs, as 

 the change of the aire we breathe, as we fee in thofc 

 which die of the plague. It is approved by many expe 

 riences, that thereof the fea, is the chiefe caufe of 

 this ftrange indifpofition the one is , that when there | 

 bio wes from the fea a ftrong breath , we fee them at the 

 land as it were fea ficke, as I my felfe have often found. 

 Another is , the farther wego into thefea, and retyre 

 from land , the more we are touched and dazeled with 

 this ficknes. Another is,that coafting along any Hand, 

 and after lancEmg into the matnc', wefhall there finde 

 the aire more ftrong . Yet will I not deny, but the mo 

 tion and agitation may caufe this ficknes 3 feeing that 



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