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-violent pain in your head, while the fpirits are filtering 

 through the veffels of your brains, (hew the difference ? and 

 when did any ever feel a like fenlation from black pepper, 

 or any pepper ate to excefs in every meal ? 



I lay down, then, as a pofitive rule of health, that the 

 warmeft difhes the natives delight in, are the moft whole- 

 fome ftrangers can ufe in the putrid climates of the Lower 

 Arabia, Abyflinia, Sennaar, and Egypt itfelf ; and that fpi- 

 rits, and all fermented liquors, mould be regarded as poifons, 

 and, for fear of temptation, not fo much as be carried along 

 with you, unlefs as a menftruum for outward applications. 



Spring, or running water, if you can find it, is to be your 

 only drink. You cannot be too nice in procuring this arti- 

 cle. But as, on both coafts of the Red Sea you fcarcely 

 find any but ftagnant water, the way I practiced was always 

 this, when I was at any place that allowed me time and 

 opportunity — I took a quantity of fine fand, warned it from 

 the fait quality with which it was impregnated, and fprcad 

 it upon a fheet to dry ; I then filled an oil-jar with water, 

 and poured into it as much from a boiling kettle as would 

 ferve to kill all the animalcula and eggs that were in it. I 

 then fifted my dried fand, as flowly as poffible, upon the 

 furface of the water in the jar, till the fand flood half a foot 

 in the bottom of it ; after letting it fettle a night, we drew it 

 off by a hole in the jar with a fpigot in it, about an inch a- 

 bove the fand ; then threw the remaining fand out upon 

 the cloth, and dried and waflied it again. 



This procefs is fooner performed than defcribed. The 

 water is as limpid as the purcft fpring, and little in- 



, ferior 



