130 ffxtrbotir, tijfi. ColMniha-.
$nd a child: much hurt. • *aj\ happ.this ^torm
continued with the greatest fury ijjisT'remember .tq^haye^seen.
Nor did the electee matter, in; the air ,geem- at all exhausted
by this ^ptesioR&jps,»_, a t Jew ; nights>fa ^ r 3 tbqre wasAjother
stqrrr|| almost ’-eppplly^everg^ but although thq hospijtM and se-j
yeral-lprivate, lmuseg^weye. struck by the- l^h|tnjng,. .providentially
no Iw^S 'iWergi/fe^'.fcf5
DuriiJg ^ liisl^ ^g n jthe, variation^ -iof climate * are yepy
great! Thei-heayy^ rains,, which &pi^40qpip&$e mipsf- by« PJSilth
yend^glhe jatpqsphei§ atj, that time extremely. .ehiflrydd damp-*,
whiip, {the *excessfvqf heat pf the,^sun is-by ,dgy aip^fci.n|up-
portable. This, tadded to the
war mi gfear day to cold and yetx wqathq^, . makes fethgtAferi ate
qnorftr unhealthy %t this season> than jdtjripg the diet -»weather.
But I haye pteeFyed,.tbps%i.:^hap^yji^cpt A e ,' nqgBqes ..pauph
mppeithan Europeans..
-< T|%r ^eppyfj iu^PM^icular,; and-jOtber -.jaathfss^q£ the contjl--
pent of' Indja^i who gonu^, hither tip^tihe^^vicgfgf the European
officers, -or fo r the- purposes^ of trade, age not ^jt^all ablebUgr
endure-the colds and damps occasioned 'byT thosejvrolent gakis,,
which . cpntinue ^muQh longer in Ceylon thajyrfpnf ejther/>£he
Malabar pr » *¥$’ from theqaLcircumstances.
that island is ofterf called, the w^tepmg-ppt of.. . J u d ^ . - ©*nri,ng
the . rainy f season,* the Indians from the continent are extremely
sgfgffe; fp< fluxes, dysenteries, and . fevers. They, are alsp- %f^
flictedjl^j anp.fhfr extraordinary disease,^o^i¥hich.|the^.iapply’
as unppmmony cure. This disopder^iSj,knpWgh byfi thqj napip
of' ithe> Berry bep'y $ it tis occasioned by. <t^e do w; djet, and bad
water which th e ; n a tiv e ; ar,e. accustomed :,tp -use; ? and, in part/,
perhaps, ..by t^Pi dampness ^of, ,the, climpte in the ; wet season..
M Jlo t’/c' upon wfiic}
pbrtuauexe erected