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is always a certain amount of risk, including the risk of 

 fever, just as there would be if a man camped out in 

 some of the Italian marshes. But the ordinary visitor 

 need have no more fear of his health than if he were 

 travelling in Italy, and it is hard to imagine a trip 

 better w^orth making than the trip from Mombasa to 

 Nairobi and on to the Victoria Nyanza. 



