Ch. IV. SOUTH AMERICA. 4r 



The funeral alfo is accompanied with the like noify 

 lamentations, and even after the corpfe is depofited 

 in the grave, the mourning is continued in the houfe 

 for nine days, during which time the Pacientes or 

 mourners, whether men or women, never Itir from 

 the apartment, where they receive the Fefanes, or 

 compliments of condolence. During nine nights, 

 from fun-fet to fun-rifmg, they are attended by their 

 relations and intimate acquaintances and it may be 

 truly faid of them, that they are all fincerely Ibrrow- 

 ful j the mourners for the iofs of the deceafed, and 

 the vifitors from the uneafmefs and fatigue of fo un- 

 comfortable an attendance. 



C H A P. V. 



Of the climate ^^yCAR th agena, and the dif 

 eafes incident to natives and foreigners, 



THE climate of Carthagena js excefllvely hot, 

 for, by obfervations we m^de on the 1 9th of No- 

 vember 1735, by a thermometer conllrudled accord- 

 ing to Mr. Reaumur, the fpirit was elevated to 1025I; 

 and in our feveral experiments, made at different 

 hours, varied only from 1024 to 1026. By experi- 

 ments made the fame year at Paris on a thermometer 

 of the fame gentleman, the fpirit rofe on the 1 6th of 

 July at 3 in the afternoon, and on the loth of Auguft 

 at half an hour after 3, to 1025!, and this was th^ 

 greateft degree of heat felt at Paris during that year ; 

 confequentiy the degree of heat in the hotteft day at 

 Paris, is continual at Carthagena. 



But the nature of this climate chiefly difplays it- 

 felf from the month of May to the end of November, 

 the feafon they call winter; becaufe, during that time, 

 there is aimoil a continual fucceflion of thunder, rain, 

 ^nd tempeftsj the floud§ precipitating the rain with 



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