THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. AS 
fo that it hath become’ conte minis eek you Lon 
es youfhall die, - 
Ira ‘traviey Sina that he is as well after having been 
fome time in this country as he was before entering it, his 
beft way is to make no innovation in his regimen, further 
than in abating fomething in the quantity. But if he is of 
a tender conftitution, he cannot act more wifely than to 
follow implicitly the regimen of fober, healthy people of 
the country, without arguing upon European notions, or 
| fubftituting what we confider as fuccedaneums to what we 
fee ufed on the {pot. All {pirits are to be avoided; even bark is 
better in water than in wine. The ftomach, being relaxed 
by profufe perfpiration, needs fomething to ftrengthen, but 
not inflame, and enable it to perform digeftion. For this 
reafon (inftind we fhould call it, if {peaking of beafts) the 
natiyes of all eaftern countries feafon every fpecies of food, 
even the fimpleft, and mildeft, rice, fo much with fpices, ef- 
pecially pepper, as abfolutely to blifter a European palate. 
Tuzse powerful antifeptics Providence ‘has planted in 
thefe countries for this ufe; and the natives have, from: 
the earlieft times, had recourfe to them in proportion to: 
the quantity that they can procure. And hence, in thefe 
dangerous climates, the natives are as healthy as we are in. 
our northern ones. ‘Travellers in Arabia are difgufted at 
this feemingly inflammatory food; and nothing is more com- 
mon than to. hear them fay that they are afraid thefe quan- 
tities of {pices will give them a fever. But did they ever 
feel themfelves heated by ever fo great a quantity of black 
pepper? Spirits they think, fubftituted to this, anfwer the 
fame purpofe. But does not the heat of your fkin, the 
toitst violent 
