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settlements, but certainly not enough to give 

 it such a very bad reputation. An attack of 

 simple fever and ague, which, if treated in time, 

 ought not to last more than three days, is not 

 so unpleasant to the patient as a bad influenza 

 cold in England ; the effects soon pass away, 

 and people seem to get accustomed to it and 

 take it as a matter of course. 



In my opinion a great deal of fever is in- 

 duced by the ordinary way of living here, the 

 residents in general taking very little exercise, 

 and eating more meat than is necessary in a 

 hot climate ; and many, again, are not so tem- 

 perate as they might be. With these the fever 

 is more likely to take a bilious form, and then 

 the cure is not so speedy. There are not so 

 very many deaths from fever alone, but often 

 a man is very ill or dying of some other disease, 

 and fever sets in at the last. Then death from 

 Delagoa Bay fever is the verdict ; and I have 

 known instances when that verdict has been 

 spread abroad when not a trace of fever has 

 appeared all through the time of illness. 



