REMEDIES FOR FEVER. 
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white sand : one of these, collecting in a pool, formed 
the drinking water of the inhabitants. Scarcely a 
man amongst us escaped fever. We arrived on the 
25th of January, and by the 1st February several 
were laid up. My first attack lasted seven days, the 
2d, 4th, 6th, 7th, and 8th terminating in headaches 
every morning. After twelve clays another sharper 
attack, with delirium at night, but no ague, lasted 
three days. The third and least severe came on fifteen 
days afterwards, with drowsiness and profuse perspira- 
tion, and terminated in three days. All suffered from 
after-weakness in the limbs; some from blindness of 
one eye, the eyelid much inflamed and drooping, 
accompanied with excessive watering ; or no inflam- 
mation of the eye, but total blindness of it, and no 
disease or scale observable. Acute pain rarely accom- 
panied this complaint. Our men ascribed their bad 
health to not having got accustomed to the water of 
the country. The natives had no efficient remedies 
for preventing the recurrence of fever, but took 
pinches of a pounded plant or wood to cure their 
headaches, or cupped themselves in the following 
curious manner : A man put some beeswax into his 
mouth, applied a small cow's horn to cuts made in the 
temple of the patient, exhausted the air by suction, and 
with his tongue shut the hole at the end of the horn 
with the wax. We had only one fatal case. Quinine 
and applications of blistering tissue behind the ear 
and on the temples partially restored health and eye- 
sight. During our stay the prevalent winds were the 
E., N.E., and S.E., but the coldest were the west- 
erly after rain. The mornings were foggy, the grass 
dripped with the night -dew, which interfered with 
