524 JAMAICA. 



the crown of a black hat will not keep out the heat, though it 

 would, if placed ivithout [g\ 



Travelers in this climate ftiould b^ careful always to change their 

 cloaths after getting wet by riding in the rain. It is a common 

 pra£lice here, as in the Eaft-Indies, to cool bottled liquors by 

 wrapping cloths dripping-wet round the bottles, the warmth 

 which the liquors had contraded evaporating with the water as it 

 palies from the cloths; and the operation is greatly facilitated by 

 fetting them in a fhaded place, where they are acceflible to the 

 wind [/:»]. A traveler, caught in rain, is much in the famefituation 

 as one of thefe bottles, and, by the quick evaporation of his natural 

 warmth, perceives his body chilled and aguifh. It is ufual here to 

 flrip, and rub all over with rum, and then put on dry cloaths; 

 which prevents any ill confequence. 



Having nothing naore material to add on the fubjedl of drefs, I 

 fliall next fpeak of, 



SECT. III. 



Diet ^«^ general Regimen of hiFE. 



A LEARNED phyfician [/'] has given it as his opinion, that, as 

 the time approaches for feamen to enter hot climates, their diet 

 fhould, by pofitive inftitutions, be varied from what is ufual at 

 land, or at fea, in Europe ; that inftindl has taught the natives 

 between the Tropics, and in all hot climates, to live chiefly on ve- 

 getable diet and fubacid fruits; for which reafon, devouring large 

 quantities of flelh-meats, and ufing the fame hard indigeftible food 

 as might pafs off in cold weather, or more Nortiierly regions, mufl 

 alone have proved the caufe of the deftru6lion of many Englifh 

 lives. He, therefore, recommends for trial, in hot climates, that 

 the feamen on board men of war fliould not have fait meat of any 

 kind above once a week, or twice ; beef and pork alternately ; 

 and that every other fpecies of allowance fhould be provided ia 

 much greater abundance than is commonly done for fea-voyages : 



[g'\ Franklin. 



[A] If thefe cloths were wetted with rum ; <H-iery, if the)' would cot tender the li<jiiors ftill 

 cooler ? 



[/•] Brocklefby. 



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