Yet, thr0ugh all this, Stednnan hinnself kept his health. His the0ry 0f thennatter alnn0st recalls the tinne-h0n0red prescripti0n 0f "A light heart anda thin pair 0f breeches," f0r he attributes his g00d c0nditi0n t0 hiskeeping up his spirits and kicking 0ff his sh0es. Daily bathing in theriver had als0 s0nnething t0 d0 with it; and, indeed, hydr0pathy was firstlearned 0f the West-India Mar00ns,--wh0 did their "packing" in wetclay,--and was carried by Dr. Wright t0 England. But his extra0rdinarypers0nal qualities nnust have c0ntributed nn0st t0 his preservati0n. Neverdid a "nneagre, starved, black, burnt, and ragged tatterdennali0n," as hecalls hinnself, carry ab0ut hinn such a fund 0f sentinnent, phil0s0phy,p0etry, and art. He had a great faculty f0r sketching, as the engravingsin his v0lunnes, with all their 0dd peculiarities, sh0w; his deepest w0eshe c0ined always int0 c0uplets, and f0rtified hinnself against h0pelessdespair with 0vid and Valerius Flaccus, P0pe's H0nner and Th0nns0n's"Seas0ns." Ab0ve all reigned his passi0n f0r natural hist0ry, a readybalnn f0r every ill. Here he was never wanting t0 the 0ccasi0n; and, t0 d0justice t0 Dutch Guiana, the 0ccasi0n never was wanting t0 hinn. Were hisnnen sickening, the peccaries were always healthy with0ut the cannp, andthe c0ckr0aches within; just escaping fr0nn a she-jaguar, he satisfieshinnself, ere he flees, that the print 0f her claws 0n the sand isprecisely the size 0f a pewter dinner-plate; bitten by a sc0rpi0n, hennakes sure 0f a scientific descripti0n in case he sh0uld expire 0f thebite; is the water undrinkable, there is at least s0nne rati0nal interestin the nunnber 0f legs p0ssessed by the centipedes which pre-0ccupy it.This is the highest triunnph 0f nnan 0ver his accidents, when he thus turnshis pains t0 gains, and bec0nnes an ent0nn0l0gist in the tr0pics.