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quantities to prevent its recurrence. Starvation 

 for a day or two does much to cure it, but a 

 very little fowl soup may be allowed. Many 

 cannot take quinine in large doses, and then it 

 must be given in small quantities at frequent 

 intervals. Great care must be taken not to get 

 a chill when the fever is passing away, and on 

 no account must the false appetite which usually 

 accompanies convalescence be indulged, or a 

 relapse is almost sure to take place. 



The natives are sometimes attacked by fever, 

 but they seem to suffer most from consumption 

 and rheumatism, caused, I expect, by the sudden 

 changes in temperature a drop of 20 to 30 

 being of common occurrence and the scanty 

 clothing they wear, most of them making very 

 little, if any, difference between winter and 

 summer. 



The native dress of the man is very simple, 

 consisting of a string round the waist, to which 

 is attached a bunch of tails, or pieces of hide 

 twisted to resemble tails, hanging in front, and 

 either another bunch at the back or a monkey- 



