y, which in this case they cry up as infallible;
and I have found by many examples a total immersion in cold spring
water, just at the accession of the fit an infallible cure.

Sec. 84. When these damps, colds and disorders affect the body more gently,
and do not seize people violently at first; then for want of some timely
application, (the planters abhorring all physic, except in desperate
cases,) these small disorders are suffered to go on, until they grow
into a cachexia, by which the body is overrun with obstinate scorbutic
humors. And this in a more fierce, and virulent degree, I take to be the
yaws.

Sec. 85. The gripes is a distemper of the Caribbee islands, not of that
country, and seldom gets footing there, and then only upon great
provocations; namely, by the intemperance before mentioned, together
with an unreasonable use of filthy and unclean drinks. Perhaps too it
may come by new unfine cider, perry or peach drink, which the people are
impatient to drink before it is ready; or by the excessive use of lime
juice, and foul sugar in punch and flip; or else by the constant
drinking of uncorrected beer, made of such windy unwholesome things as
some people make use of in brewing.

Thus having fairly reckoned up the principal inconveniences of the
climate, and the distempers incident to the country, I shall add a
chapter of the recreations and amusements used there, and proceed to the
natural benefits they enjoy. After which, I shall conclude with some
hints concerning their trade and improvements.

CHAPTER XXI.

OF THE RECREATIONS AND PASTIMES USED IN VIRGINIA.

Sec. 86. For their recreation, the plantations, orchards and gardens
constantly afford them fragrant and delightful walks. In their woods and
fields, they have an unknown variety of vegetables, and other rarities
of nature to discover and observe. They have hunting, fishing and
fowling, with which they entertain themselves an hundred ways. There is
the most good nature and hospitality practiced in the world, both
towards friends and strangers: but the worst of it is, this generosity
is attended now and then with a little too much intemperance. The
neighborhood is at much the same distance as in the country in England;
but the goodness of the roads, and the fairness of the weather, bring
people often together.

Sec. 87. The Indians, as I have already observed, had in their hunting, a
way of concealing themselves, and coming up to the deer,