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chinleck, while on their march to join the depot here, owing 

 to some misapprehension of the Quarter Master G-eneral's 

 instructions, passed a night in the middle of the jungle at 

 the foot of the Grhat. The moment I ascertained this fact, I 

 placed all the Europeans under a rigid system of surveillance, 

 and they were each well disciplined, and took considerable 

 quantities of Quinine, with other ordinary precautionary 

 measures. Lieutenant Croft, being subject habitually to 

 fever, was subjected to a similar course of treatment, and all 

 these escaped without a single imtoward symptom ; but Dr. 

 Auchinleck, relying on the strength of his constitution, neg- 

 lected the precautions recommended to him, and the con- 

 sequence was, that on the eleventh day he was attacked by 

 the fever, in its most marked and aggravated form, and only 

 escaped by the adoption of the most active and decided 

 treatment. 



Dyspepsia, or Indigestion, when unconnected with serious 

 derangement of the liver, is another of the diseases which be- 

 nefit, in the most marked and decided degree, by the climate. 

 When we recollect that this Protean malady often baffles the 

 highest order of talent and professional experience in Europe, 

 it is no small proof of the efficacy of our climate to say, that 

 dyspepsia is rendered even manageable by its influence.* 



Debility, in whatever degree, and particularly when occur- 

 ring as the result of long residence in the low country, with- 

 out being connected with decided disease, seldom or never 

 fails to yield to the influence of our bracing air, aided by pro- 

 per diet, exercise, and regimen. The only exception to this 

 is the case of those who, by such residence, have become In- 

 dianized in their habits and feelings ; to them, the cold and 



* If not, then the cold water system will succeed, and no medicine 

 "wiU prerail. — Ed. 



