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Certain.” Mr. Sargeant has had unquestionably superior oppor- 
tunities of learning the facts, and his opinion, notwithstanding 
his personal interest, is entitled to considerable weight. 
We were interested in 1879, to hear two of our Nassau friends 
who had been at the Bermudas, compare them with Nassau. One 
declared that the Bahamas weakened and debilitated, while his 
system in the Bermudas was refreshed and invigorated. Both 
winter resorts have the ocean air, but one is cool and tonic—the 
other so warm it wilted and unstrung him. He did not want to 
see the Bahamas any more. The other declared the Bermudas 
no place at all for a sick man; that it rained there all the time, 
and was therefore damp and wet, while its temperature was sub- 
ject to great fluctuations, and was very trying to invalids. But 
Nassau, he affirmed, was just the place for a sick man to enjoy 
himself and get well. A large, healthy looking and intelligent 
man who was returning home with us after a six months’ resi- 
dence at Nassau, spoke very strongly against it. He did not 
like boating, and preferred to take his exercise on foot. When 
the sun was up he could not walk out because it was so very hot, 
while the damp and unhealthy night air made out-door exercise 
at that time unsafe. He had no desire to go there again. Other 
passengers on the Savannah steamer in 1879, including the author, 
felt that to them Nassau had been a great sanitarium, while its 
bland air, beautiful waters, coral bowers and bright skies, will 
ever secure for it a most prominent place in the mind’s store- 
house of pleasant memories. 
The wife of the author of this book was relieved of bronchial 
and asthmatic troubles at Nassau, in 1879, which did not return 
while she was at our sea-side residence upon the north shore of 
Long Island Sound during the following summer. In the suc- 
ceeding fall and early winter the old troubles again made their 
appearance in a modified form, but the air of Nassau in March, 
