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For this reafon, if you are well, deluge yourfelf from 
head to foot, even in the houfe, where water is plenty, by di- 
reting a fervant to throw buckets upon you at leaft once 
a-day when you are Hotteft; not from any imagination that 
the water braces you, as it is called, for your bracing will 
laft you only a very few minutes ; but thefe copious mun: 
dations will carry watery sarticles into your blood, though 
not equal to bathing in running flrearns, where the total 
immerfion, the motion of the water, and the action of the 
limbs, all confpire to the benefit you are in quelt of. As td 
cold water bracing in thefe climates, }'am perfuaded it isan 
idea not founded in truth. By obfervation it has appeared 
often to me, that, when heated by violent exercife, I have 
been much more relieved, and my ftrength more complete- 
ly reftored by the ufe of a tepid bath, than by an equal time 
pafled in a cold one. 
Do not fatigue yourtelf if poflible. . Exercife is not ei- 
ther fo neceflary or falutary here as in Europe. Ufe fruits 
iparingly, efpecially if too ripe. The muta, or banana, in 
Arabia Felix, are always rotten-rtipe when they are brought to 
~you. Avoid all fort of fruit expofed for fale in the markets, 
as it has probably been gathered in the fun, and carried 
miles in it, and all its juices are ina ftate of fermentation. 
Lay it firft upon a table covered with a coarfe cloth, and 
throw frequently a quantity of water upon it; and, if you 
have an opportunity, gather it in the dew of the morning 
before dawn of day, for that is far better. 
Rice and pillaw are the beft food; fowls are very bad, 
eggs are worfe; greens are not wholefome. In Arabia the 
mutton is goad, and, when roafted, may be eaten warm with . 
Z fafety ; 
