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Intermitting Fevers which are endemial 

 to the other inhabitants of Guiana, who 

 do not imitate them therein. But tho* 

 the Indians live in the excefiive ufe of 

 Pepper, they are never afflifted with the 

 Gout, notwithftanding the humidity of 

 the air renders it particularly troublefome 

 to thofe of the White Inhabitants, who 

 have tranfported it from Europe-, and 

 I think that Spices ought to be no lon- 

 ger enumerated among the pnedifpoling 

 caufes of that diforder. The Indians, 

 however, ufe but little Salt with their 

 food, and until the Europeans vifued 

 them, they had none, except what 

 they fometimes procured by boiling fea- 

 water in their fmall clay pots; but the 

 far inland inhabitants fcarce ever faw any 

 in their lives. The Indians have no fet 

 time of eating except at evening, when 

 they return from hunting; at other 

 times they eat whenever they are ftimu- 

 lated by hunger. 



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