With Flashlight and Rifle -^ 



routes, and in the vicinity of the populated neighbour- 

 hoods, my people suffered much oftener and more severely 

 from malaria than on the velt, although this latter is 

 very unhealthy lor Europeans and for inhabitants of the 

 mountain-regions. At certain camping-places, ten, twenty, 

 or even more, among my servants would suddenly fall 

 sick with malaria, which, however, they usually got over 

 in a fairly short time. 



The opinion is wide-spread in Europe that the 

 natives do not suft'er from malaria. This is not only not 

 the case, but the dwellers in the mountain-regions are 

 liable to very severe attacks when they go down into 

 the plains. I have seen the greater number of a band 

 of Wadshaga men who were sent down to the plains 

 for lime-burning, suffer quite unusually badly from malaria 

 when they returned home again after some days' stay in 

 the lowlands, and a great number of them succumbed 

 within a few days. 



In the famine-year of 1899, I could not obtain 

 Wapare, inhabitants of the Pare mountain-chain, at any 

 price, to carry my zoological specimens to the coast, 

 although the people were eager to earn something. 

 They even declared themselves only prepared to take 

 my loads to a certain point near the coast ; the sight 

 ot the sea, they said, would mean death to them ! This 

 fancy was not without a certain foundation in fact, 

 for everywhere the highlanders are liable, as has been 

 said, to frequent and severe attacks of fever when once 

 they descend to the plains. 



Injuries of various kinds, feet-troubles especially, 



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