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pofe myfelf to the fame fatigue v/ithout com- 
plaining ; but my example had no effedl to 
raife their deprefled courage. 
They complained particularly of thhfl: more 
than of any other evil. In vain did I exhort 
them to employ a remedy I had difcovered, 
which was that of not drinking much, and of 
being contented with lapping a little water at 
a time, like my dogs. This would have been 
fufEcient to moiften the falivary glands, and 
to keep the mouth cool ; but their obftinate 
Ignorance would not fuffer them to follow my 
dh'edions. They drank to fatlsfy the prefent^ 
and thought they could drink alfo to fatisfy 
their future thirft, without perceiving that the 
large quantity of liquid which they fwaliowed, 
after remaining on their ftomachs like a load, 
and retarding their movementSj foon went off 
again in an abundant perfpiration, which 
greatly weakened them, and threw them into 
a ft ate of general relaxation, the caufe of which 
they unjuflly afcribed to the climate. 
Eefides, all the water here being for the moil 
part bracki fli, it occafioned dyfente ries, whlcli 
they rendered continual, by refufing the only 
remedy we could employ to check them. Thcv 
had 
