432 PELOPONNESUS. 
c ^ p - evolutions, to the sound of Turkish flutes. Such 
amusements and customs are never likely to be 
discontinued in any country, so long as any 
portion of the original inhabitants remains : 
indeed, they often continue to exist when a new 
race has succeeded to the old inhabitants ; being 
adopted by their successors 1 . 
tion. 
The population of Nauplia consisted of two 
thousand persons, at the time of our arrival. 
The plague had raged during three successive 
years, and had carried off six thousand of its 
inhabitants. When free from this scourge, it 
is a very unhealthy place, the people being 
Bad Air. attacked annually with a malaria fever. The 
few merchants who reside here have generally 
country-houses, and leave the town in the 
summer months. The night we had passed in 
the suburb exposed us to an attack of this kind ; 
the author having caught the fever, and all our 
party being in a certain degree affected by the 
unwholesome air. The only remedy is the red 
Peruvian bark; but it must be administered in 
(l) All tbe invasions and conquests to which our islanil has been 
liable, during nineteen centuries, have not abolished the rites of tbe 
Mislctac ; and some of the games of the earliest inhabitants of Great 
Britain are still practised in the country. 
