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^	PICNICS ANI '.ESULTS OF SUNBURN
AT WATERING PLACES SAME IN 1817 AS TODAY
June - 1817
"THE ENVIRONS OF NEW ORLEANS" #+3 ... It vas in the month of June, 1817, that on a fine Sunday a party of North Europeans—Danes, Swedes, Germans, etc.— being all in the commercial pursuits of New Orleans business— thought they would imitate some of their summer water excursions in this southern lake altitude.
So this party, composed of 7 or 8, all more or less familiar with nautical instruments, and well provided with a whole day's stock of cold victuals, wines, etc., set sail from the Old Basin to go down Bayou St. Jo|m to the lighthouse station on the Lake Pontchartrain.
In the beginning all went on (the sun being low) as merry as could be. There was singing, music, rowing and drinking to one's heart content. But, by and by, when out in the open crooked bends of the Bayou the sun began to be very unruly. The awning, no matter how fixed, allowed one half of the company in a most intolerable broiling stew. But this became worse after the whole party had safely got to the little fishing village at the lake, and had taken to bathing and swimming outside of the shades and awnings of the boats.
Some of the party received actual sun-stroke and came out of the water as blistered as a boiled lobster. Some were freckled all over their shoulders and necks. Others lost their voices and became as mute as fishes. And so this Northern party came back from their lake excursion in the evening saying they would never again venture out.
N• 0. Daily Crescent - Wed. April 18, 1866 p If c 3