160 WANDERINGS IN 



THIRD 

 JOURNEY. 



present century ; and it has since befriended me 



in many a fit of sickness, brought on by exposure 



to the noon-day sun, to the dews of night, to the 

 pelting shower, and unwholesome food. 



Perhaps it will be as well, here, to mention a 

 fever which came on, and the treatment of it ; 

 it may possibly be of use to thee, shouldst thou 

 turn wanderer in the tropics : a word or two also 

 of a wound I got in the forest, and then we will 

 say no more of the little accidents which some- 

 times occur, and attend solely to natural history. 

 We shall have an opportunity of seeing the wild 

 animals in their native haunts, undisturbed and 

 unbroken in upon by man. We shall have time 

 and leisure to look more closely at them, and 

 probably rectify some errors which, for want of 

 proper information, or a near observance, have 

 crept into their several histories. 

 severe It was in the month of June, when the sun 



attack of i p i t> f^ -IT-IT 



fever. was within a few days ot Cancer, that 1 had a 

 severe attack of fever. There had been a deluge 

 of rain, accompanied with tremendous thunder 

 and lightning, and very little sun. Nothing could 

 exceed the dampness of the atmosphere. For two 

 or three days I had been in a kind of twilight state 

 of health, neither ill nor what you may call well ; 

 I yawned and felt weary without exercise, and 

 my sleep was merely slumber. This was the 

 time to have taken medicine ; but I neglected to 

 do so, though I had just beeen reading, " O navis 



