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may be prevented by painting the face black 

 with Indian ink ; imitating what nature has 

 done in the instance of the Negro. But that, 

 you will say, is impracticable. The next best 

 safeguard is a wide-brimmed hat ; the hat 

 white, the under surface of the brim black or 

 green. I need not explain to you the rationale 

 of this. And as some protection from the 

 parching influence of the wind, I would recom- 

 mend the rubbing the face and lips before start- 

 ing, with a little sweet oil, or cold cream, or lip- 

 salve, containing oily or fatty matter, whether 

 bear's grease, or what commonly represents it, 

 hog's lard. The ancients understood the use of 

 oil as an external application better than we 

 moderns ; as also the benefit of girding up the 

 loins, when about to be exposed to the weather 

 in taking exercise. Let me advise you, in this 

 latter particular, to follow their example; it 

 may save you from lumbago not an enviable 

 malady. A bandage of a few yards, three or 

 four inches wide, of knit worsted it being 

 elastic answers the purpose well. I adopted 

 it first in the East, after seeing how our couriers, 

 who in Turkey have to make their long journeys 

 of despatch on horseback, gird themselves well 

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