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neither wine nor brandy two hundred and fixty 

 years ago, when the Europeans came to them ; 

 they lived, as I have already faid, on the flelh 

 of wild beads dried, roafted, or boiled with 

 maize pounded in a mortar made of fome hard 

 wood. This food is wholefome, and makes a 

 very good chyle. I have lived about two months 

 upon thefe viduals, going up the river Mobile 

 with the Indians^ and can affirm, that I never 

 enjoyed my health better in my life than at that 

 time. Of all Latin proverbs, this is the bed : 



Plures gula occidit^ quam gladius. 



Voluptuoufnefs and intemperance in eating and 

 drinking, deftroy more men than the fword. 

 Therefore one ought to prefcribe to himfelf a 

 proper regimen of life, efpecially in the hot 

 countries of America. 



Firfl: of all, great care muft be taken to be 

 accuftomed to the climate by degrees, and to ab- 

 ftain from eating all kinds of fruit, and drinking 

 all forts of liquors, till the body is ufed to it. 

 People who are very replete with blood, may be 

 bled from time to time, to prevent an apoplexy. 

 A gentle purge will fometimes do wellj the 



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