4o6 TRAVELS through 



fants live long, and are healthy, without the 

 afliftance of phyficians ! The perpetual labour 

 they are employed in keeps them fo •, exercife 

 prevents their knowing the gout, gravel, and 

 other infirmities, to which the richer people in 

 Europe are fubje(5t, on account of the refined 

 tafte of their tables, and becaufe they make no 

 more ufe of their legs than old infirm men. I 

 have known fome, who, like Moliere's Malade 

 imaginairey filled their ftomach with as many 

 drugs as an apothecary's fliop. 



It has been obferved, in the hot countries of 

 America^ that the young Europeans die fooner 

 there than the old ones-, becaufe the former 

 imprudently eat all forts of fruit, which caufe 

 them a dyfentery ; therefore it is neceflary to 

 €at very little of them, till the body is accuftom^ 

 cd to the climate, after which, at the expira- 

 tion of a year, this will caufe no further incon- 

 vcniencies. 



By obferving thefe precautions, 1 will war- 

 rant, that people will live longer in this part of 

 the world than in the old one. There are 

 now many people alive in Lcuifmtay who have 

 been there ever fincc its firil fettlement. I faw 



a planter 



