6o T R A V E L S I N 
This is a civility that is never omitted. How- 
ever numerous may be the party, every body 
fmokes : the confequence of which is a cloud, 
that, riling at firft to the upper part of the 
room, increafes, by degrees, till it filla the whole 
houfe, and becomes at laft fo thlcli, that it is 
impoffible for the fmokers to fee one another. 
Sparmann has given of thefe fmoking parties 
an account equally humourous and true. For 
myfelf, whom the fmell of tobacco particularly 
incommodes, I confefs that when thefe infec-r 
tious fogs began to defcend to a level with my 
head, I left the room and ran into the fields 
to breathe a purer air, and to cleanfe my 
lungs. 
There is another cuRom which, from an In-» 
vincible repugnance, I could never prevail on. 
myfelf to adopt : I mean the evening bath ; a 
cuftom fo efteemed by the Greeks, and which 
recalls to the memory periods fo delightful, and 
manners fo happy. But how extreme is the 
difference between the UiyfTes and Nauficas of 
the Greeks, and thofeof the Cape! I have already 
obferved, that neither the men nor the women 
wear ftcckings, and that the latter alfo, for a 
confiderable part of the year, go without fhoes. 
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