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Thirst, The other Person Imagined nothing but Groves of Oranges and L>ntons, and begg’dthe opportunity osaBoat, ro go ashore, withgreat ear*nestness; io that if not Watched, perhaps he might have Leap'd into theSea. The Symptom were the fame as in the other; only his whole Bodyfeem’d to be much Coldcr ; yet was nol he sensible of any Coldntfs in himselh -1 causedhim to be Vomited ; and he was well in his Head, as soon as ever thaVomit made him Sick at the Stomacb , as yet not having Wrought. I Dietedhim as the other, and only ßlooded him in the Arm* I let them Blood meerlyoutofCaution (for eise they scem’d Well) and to Promote Transpiration andSweating, which succeeded according to my defire.

Undoubtedly the Seat of that Diseafe is in the Stomacb and those Partsadjoyning to it, in which the Firfi ConcoSlion is perform’d, and ’tis highlyprobable, that it principally ariscth from the Iä Dtet, by Eating too muchSah- Meat in Vöyages; the Saline Stearns from the Stomacb affectmg the Bramin a peculiat mannet.

As to the Cure by Vomit ing, I (hall not now explain, How Vomita Work j itsufficeth, that the Discasc was Seated in and about the Ventrale j and that inH$t Countries, as well as in Hot Seafons, the Rule of Htppoc. takes place,t/Eßate per Superiora. I never siw any good Effect of the most In nocentTurge , during my stay in the Indies, except in C bronical Distempers; nordid I ever almost Gire any (aster Frequent Trials had made me Cautious)but Tills were Antimonial , or Mercurius Vita , or Vomitive Infußons. Andby this Method I preserved our Sh/ps Well, and Effected those fpeedy Cures ,which I think, none had besore scen in Jamaica. Itistrue, of thecommonfort in the other Ships, when we came to Barbado's, upon view I found ma*ny Hydropical and Scorbutical: And as foon as we came there, I caused all,that were any thing 111, to be Vomited and Purged with Mercurius Vita , theVomitive Infusion, and Cambodia ; by which means and one Meal of FreßsMeat, and some Limons, all the Disbrderly Rabble Recover’d.

The Sea-Brieze comer not into Jamaica rill 8 or 9 of the Clock in the Morn- oir,rv« t ioning, and ordinariiy ceaseth about 4 or y at Nighc : But sbmetimes the Sea- cmtinlU. 1‘17.Brieze blows in the Winter Montbs 14 Days and Nights together; and then p 7 ‘ 7 'no Clouds gather, but Dews lall. But ifa Nortb Wind Blow (which some-times in the Winter Months lasts as long) then no Dews Fall nor CloudsGather. The Clouds begin so Gather about r or 3 of the Clock inAfternoon at the Mountams , and do not Embody Erst in the Air, andafter Settle there, but bettle sirst, and Embody there; the reif of the Skiebting Clear tillSun-set. So that they do not pafe near the Earth in a Bo-dy, and only stop where they raeet with Patts of the Earth Elevated abovethe rest: but Precipitate from a very great Height, and in Particles of anexceedihg Rar! sied Nature, so as not toObseurethe Air or 5£;eatall; thatgreat Vat iety of Beautiful Colours in the Canopy of Heaven, bting raiscdto a much greater Distance than tis Here.

The Tvrtoifes Float Aßeep in a Calm day a long time: so that the Seamenrow gently to them, and either strike them with Itons, or ensoare their Legswith a Rope and runingNet, and so take them.

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