70 DEL AGO A BAY. 



Many miners, too, and others, come into the 

 town exhausted after tramping from the gold- 

 fields or Transvaal, perhaps having endured 

 many privations and hardships on the road. 

 Only lately I heard that some had arrived who 

 had lost their way and had wandered about 

 without food for five days before they struck 

 the right road. Naturally such people are apt 

 to drink more than is good for them when they 

 arrive in civilised parts, and if they get an 

 attack of fever the place gets the odium of it, 

 and no mention is afterwards made of the cir- 

 cumstances that produced it. 



Occasionally a person is attacked by " per- 

 nicious fever," which is generally fatal, some- 

 times carrying off the sufferer in twenty-four 

 hours ; but fortunately such cases are very rare. 



If treated in time, simple fever is nothing 

 to be alarmed at. A feeling of weariness or 

 headache is often the first symptom, and a 

 slight aperient then will sometimes prevent the 

 fever appearing ; but if it does, quinine must be 

 taken, after the fever has abated, in sufficient 



