486 Mr. schotte’s journal of the 
tinued evaporation, occafions the water within the bag to 
grow confiderably cool. 
This wind is in general not reckoned unwholefome, 
either by the inhabitants or Europeans, though it feels 
very difagreeable, and by depriving the body of its thin- 
ner fluids may be looked upon as the immediate caufe 
of fome difeafes, and the pre-difpofing one to others. 
When it fets in fooner or later in the month of Gdtober, 
it is confidered by the inhabitants as producing a cefla- 
tion of the fickly weather, and the beginning of 
healthier. In the months of December and January, 
when the Sun is at its greateft diftance, it makes the 
weather feel very cold in the nights and the mornings. 
The putrid diforder, which proved fo fatal to the gar- 
rifon and the inhabitants of Senegal, made its appearance 
in the beginning of Auguft. The preceding month of 
July had been remarkably healthy; though the weather 
was very hot and fultry, there were only three foldiers in 
the hofpital for flight venereal diforders ; but we learnt 
by fome black meflengers, who came from Goree, that 
there was a fever raging there, which had carried off 
numbers of the French garrifon and inhabitants of the 
ifland, and we thought ourfelves very happy not to par- 
take of their fate. On the fecond of Auguft one of the 
foldiers, who was in the hofpital for a gonorrhea, being 
1 cured, 
