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CHAP, where the air is impregnated with myriads of invifible 

 ^^2^- animalciila, the fmalleft fcratch immediately becomes a 

 running fore. The bed antidote and cure for fuch com- 

 plaints in this country is lemon or lime acid, but this we 

 had not. The next bed mode of treatment is never to 

 expofe an open wound, or even the fmalleft fcratch, to the 

 air ; but the inftant they are received, to cover them with 

 \grey paper wetted with fpirits, or any kind of moifture, 

 fo that it may ftick to the fldn. For my own part, no man 

 could enjoy a better ftate of health than I continued to 

 enjoy, wearing nothing but my long trowfers, and checked 

 fliirt loofe at the collar and turned up in the lleeves. 

 Nay, even when the fun was not too hot, I ftripped all 

 together, and twice every day continued to plunge into 

 the v/ater : by thefe means I wis always cool and clean ; 

 I alfo daily ufed a cheering glafs of win€, having firft 

 hung it a few fathoms under water, which rendered it 

 much m^ore cool and pleafant. 



Daring all thefe hardfhips, I muft not forget the high 

 gratification which was afforded us one day by a few 

 marcufas that we found in this place, which had been 

 left there ftanding ever iince the eftate, many years ago, 

 •had been deftroyed. There was indeed but one fingle 

 old tree, I fliould rather fay a fhrub, for the plant which 

 bears them falls more properly under that defcription. 

 This delicious fruit is of an oval form, and of an orange 

 or golden colour ; the blolTom refembling the paflion- 

 flower. They are commonly larger, but fome lefs than 



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