92 The warm southern colonies also become more healthful; and it is remarkable that in the Spanish histories of the first discovery and conquest of these countries they appear to have been very healthful, being then well peopled and cultivated. No account of the sickness or decay of Cortes’s or Pizarro’s small armies.

93 He seems to have lived about the time of the younger Africanus. (Lib. i. cap. 1.)

94 Cæsar, De bello Gallico, lib. 16. Strabo (lib. 7) says the Gauls were not much more improved than the Germans.