SriTZHERGEN AND GKEENI,AXI). 29 



It is to be observed that here the waves of the sea run 

 hunger, ahnost as they do before the narrow channel between 

 England and France in the Spanish Sea (and what hath been 

 observed heretofore of the rowling and tossing of the sea, 

 belongeth properly to this), with a continual tossing of the 

 ships, which maketh the men sea-sick. 



The vomiting and sickness is attributed to the sea water ; 

 but it really proceedeth from the great and continual motion 

 of the body, when oftentimes we are forced to creep on all 

 four. 



Neither meat nor drink tasts well, the head akes and is 

 giddy, and they are always reaching to vomit. Costiveness 

 of the body doth generally accompany this distemper, and 

 the urine is highly tinged. I reckon it no more than if one 

 is not used to ride in coaches or waggons ; only that it is 

 always accompanied by a bad stomach and restlessness. 



The best remedies for this distemper, I believe, are aro- 

 matics chewed in ones mouth, as cinnamon, cloves, galengal, 

 ginger, nutmegs, and the like. Many think to drive this 

 distemper away with fasting, but they will find themselves 

 mistaken. Some drink sea-water, and believe that will make 

 them vomit, which notwithstanding is not occasioned by the 

 sea-water, but by the loathsomeness thereof. 



To take away the ill-taste out of ones mouth, in my opinion, 

 the best means is to eat ancV drink plentifully, it easeth 

 qiuckly ; neither ought one to sleep too much, but keep in 

 the air, and look into the wind, and to walk up and down in 

 the ship is also very proper. 



But now let us return to the waves again : they rise, al- 

 though it be not windy, as high as mountains, very smooth, 

 and run away as far as one can discern them, which is to be 

 understood when the sea is turbulent, whereupon quickly a 

 hard gale of wind followeth. In a storm the waves run after 

 the same manner as is just now said, but with many curling 

 and foaniiug whirls, as is described in the storm of the North 



