CHAPTER VIL 
The Soothing Languid Air and its Consequences. Ambition Dies. The 
Bahamas not Included in the Primal Curse. The Island of Indolence. 
Soothed Sharks. Lazy Air and Blood Putting Insect Plagues to Sleep. 
Mice and Men alike Affected. A Large Fish Story. Sea Turtles Resigned to 
their Fate. Negroes Contented and Happy. Good Orderin Nassau. How 
a Millenium can be Secured. Agricultural and Manufacturing Industry not 
Rooted in the Rocks. Bue Making. Smati Islands Unfavorable to Intellect- 
ual Development. 
“Not poppy, nor mandragora, 
Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world 
Shall ever medicine thee to such swect sleep.” SHAKESPEARE. 
The Bahama air is very soothing, and soon makes itself felt 
upon nerves that are sensitive, disordered or unstrung. It en- 
ervates like an opiate, and the newly arrived stranger soon suc- 
cumbs to its influence. It is difficult to do anything in the 
warm and languid air, when not overcome by sleep, but muse 
and dream. It is very entertaining to observe the new comers 
from the states when a passenger steamer arrives. They step so 
quick, and talk so fast, and inquire so earnestly, and commence 
so soon to crowd an immense amount of walking, riding and 
sailing into a single day, economising time, and drawing upon 
their capital of latent strength and vitality as though in vigor 
and endurance they were millionaires. The amount of sight- 
seeing they accomplish in two or three days is astonishing. But 
in less than a week the warm air takes all the frost out of them, 
and wilted, languid and limpsy, they loll, and lounge and loaf 
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