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Travels into PER.SI A.
Diary Fevers.
Cihcyr.this.
Letter V. Cowardly Drovers, daring to make any Defence, but rcsigncd
*-V%r~w theroselves tamelv to their Wills, while they rifled and took away
above a Thousand Tbomavds, which amounts in our Coin to four
thousand Pound in Silver, and are hitherto undiscovercd.
I cannot but reflect on this Faint- heartedness with some Astonissi-
ment: Only when I consider the Merchant is Insured by the Sham-
bmder, it abates something of the Wonder; for hemustrestorethe
whole Sum to the right Owner, it being his business to find out the
Thieves, and recover the Money.
Hence we came to Gerom, and by labouring in the Heat of the
Day to get over the Mountains, we were persecuted with Diary Fe-
vers : In this Munsel we found Avetfs Mother of Thime, Mullen, Ro-
man Wormwood with a Scarlet Flower, divers sorts of Thistles, espe-
cially the Holy Thistle, a Remedy for the now raging Diseases; as
I am of Opinion, Nature has provided all Regions with Medicines
peculiar for their Distresies.
Coloau'mta Apples grow like a smal! round Gourd on the Ground.
Here in the Gardens were the firfl: true Beans and Pease I saw iince
1 lest England.
The old Caravan Ser Raw at Mocock Sugta is deserted by the Cara-
van Dar, who has shifted to a new one built by the same Hand as
that lately at Chawtalk, and abandoned the declining one to Serpents,
Chameleons, and Tarantulaes ( which are not so venomous as in the
Straits), Centipedes, and Scorpions, it lying an open Receptacle
for all Wild Beau's.
The North Winds about the middle of May raised many a Whirl-
wind ; and besore we came to Caisar, we found ascnsible Alteration
from scorching Heat to a Searching Cold; by which Change, our
Garments that before hung loose about us, are gathered together to
wrap us closc ; for all u hich, ^vj efcaped without complaining of a
sudden Pain in the Joints; and many were incident to putrid Fevers,
who had indulged too largely on Raw Fruits.
* This sudden Mutation of the Air, brought not only on Mankind,
but Beasts also, Catarrhs; and Dessuiftions of all sorts; to wit, from.
Hot and Moist (whereby wc were bedew'd all over with Sweat)
into Hot and Dry in the Day, and at Night Cold and Dry, by rea-
son of Impetuous Blasts from the North Easi, by which the Pores
being Jhut, the inclosed Humours are put into a Fluor; there being
not a Man among us, nor hardly an Horsc, but ran freely at the
Nose: Here, as the Air varied, we left oss drinking Rain-Water;
which might have some Inssuence upon us, it being preferred before
all others, as having the Sun and Ocean for its Parents: The River-
Water here is muddy, and is often carried under Ground by Pits,
wherefore it partes not, without leaving some Putrefaction behind ;
but the most indigested is Well-water, which is wholly deprived of
the Sun..
Nor must we slip without Remark what happen'd in our Winter-
March ; as we there carried the Winter with us, so now we bring the
Summer; for Harvest is beginning every where, where we arrive:
Though here the Barley be mowing, yet the Wheat stands, to en-
dure a farther ripening, being kept back by the CbilHYinds, which
still
Pains in tlte
jsoii
Putrid Fevers
Occasioned as
well by the
Water as Air
Travels into PER.SI A.
Diary Fevers.
Cihcyr.this.
Letter V. Cowardly Drovers, daring to make any Defence, but rcsigncd
*-V%r~w theroselves tamelv to their Wills, while they rifled and took away
above a Thousand Tbomavds, which amounts in our Coin to four
thousand Pound in Silver, and are hitherto undiscovercd.
I cannot but reflect on this Faint- heartedness with some Astonissi-
ment: Only when I consider the Merchant is Insured by the Sham-
bmder, it abates something of the Wonder; for hemustrestorethe
whole Sum to the right Owner, it being his business to find out the
Thieves, and recover the Money.
Hence we came to Gerom, and by labouring in the Heat of the
Day to get over the Mountains, we were persecuted with Diary Fe-
vers : In this Munsel we found Avetfs Mother of Thime, Mullen, Ro-
man Wormwood with a Scarlet Flower, divers sorts of Thistles, espe-
cially the Holy Thistle, a Remedy for the now raging Diseases; as
I am of Opinion, Nature has provided all Regions with Medicines
peculiar for their Distresies.
Coloau'mta Apples grow like a smal! round Gourd on the Ground.
Here in the Gardens were the firfl: true Beans and Pease I saw iince
1 lest England.
The old Caravan Ser Raw at Mocock Sugta is deserted by the Cara-
van Dar, who has shifted to a new one built by the same Hand as
that lately at Chawtalk, and abandoned the declining one to Serpents,
Chameleons, and Tarantulaes ( which are not so venomous as in the
Straits), Centipedes, and Scorpions, it lying an open Receptacle
for all Wild Beau's.
The North Winds about the middle of May raised many a Whirl-
wind ; and besore we came to Caisar, we found ascnsible Alteration
from scorching Heat to a Searching Cold; by which Change, our
Garments that before hung loose about us, are gathered together to
wrap us closc ; for all u hich, ^vj efcaped without complaining of a
sudden Pain in the Joints; and many were incident to putrid Fevers,
who had indulged too largely on Raw Fruits.
* This sudden Mutation of the Air, brought not only on Mankind,
but Beasts also, Catarrhs; and Dessuiftions of all sorts; to wit, from.
Hot and Moist (whereby wc were bedew'd all over with Sweat)
into Hot and Dry in the Day, and at Night Cold and Dry, by rea-
son of Impetuous Blasts from the North Easi, by which the Pores
being Jhut, the inclosed Humours are put into a Fluor; there being
not a Man among us, nor hardly an Horsc, but ran freely at the
Nose: Here, as the Air varied, we left oss drinking Rain-Water;
which might have some Inssuence upon us, it being preferred before
all others, as having the Sun and Ocean for its Parents: The River-
Water here is muddy, and is often carried under Ground by Pits,
wherefore it partes not, without leaving some Putrefaction behind ;
but the most indigested is Well-water, which is wholly deprived of
the Sun..
Nor must we slip without Remark what happen'd in our Winter-
March ; as we there carried the Winter with us, so now we bring the
Summer; for Harvest is beginning every where, where we arrive:
Though here the Barley be mowing, yet the Wheat stands, to en-
dure a farther ripening, being kept back by the CbilHYinds, which
still
Pains in tlte
jsoii
Putrid Fevers
Occasioned as
well by the
Water as Air