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head foremost riqbt iuto you, while Culex always medi- 

 tates for a while before biting-." Professor Hil^'ard 

 further stated that iu those marshes there is little or no 

 malaria and that he had been exposed there for weeks 

 without injury, nor did the iidiabitants complain of chills 

 or fever. But in the Arkansas bottoms it took him only 

 a few days to succumb, and the natives "luxui'iated in 

 ' asTue cake.' " 



