32 BEEMUDA. 



white of the eye, either singly or collectively, indi- 

 cated extreme danger ; and when the black vomit 

 had appeared, scarcely a hope remained. 



The peculiar habit favourable to the morbid 

 motions which constitute this fever, is excited into 

 action by a variety of causes ; the chief are — intem- 

 perance, excessive fatigue in the sun, perspiration 

 checked by being exposed to a current of air, or 

 sleeping exposed to the dews, &c. In fact, whatever 

 becomes an exciting cause of fever in any country 

 is equally so in this ; but, unfortunately, it is not 

 the same fever that is induced. Contagion, as the 

 chief source of this fever, is entirely rejected by 

 those professional men who have had the greatest 

 opportunity of information. 



Some hints to invalids from Northern climates, for 

 the preservation of health in Bermuda, may here 

 be given with advantage. 



Dress.-'—Th.e necessity which tyrant custom — per- 

 haps policy — has imposed on us, of continuing to 

 appear in European dress on almost all pubHc occa- 

 sions, and in all formal parties, under a burning sky, 

 is not one of the least miseries of a tropical life ; 

 but, fortimately for Europeans, there is some inter- 

 mission of solar heat in Bermuda; we are roasted 

 only three months in the year ; whereas, in the West 



