PART II. 

 NORTH-EAST RHODESIA. 



CHAPTER XL 



FORT JAMESON TO NAWALIA ENGAGING NEW SER- 

 VANTS KAMBIRI AND HIS WIVES "CALICO POSHO." 



FORT JAMESON, which is situated at an altitude of 

 about three thousand three hundred feet, is a 

 pleasant station, and includes within its boundaries 

 an English church, comfortable bungalows, club and 

 library, lawn tennis courts, a golf course, plenty of 

 green grass, and avenues of trees. The place being 

 free from "fly," a few people keep horses, also 

 cows, mules, and other animals. We found the sun 

 decidedly hot, but a cool wind from the mountains 

 moderated what might have been otherwise an 

 oppressive temperature. Notwithstanding its alti- 

 tude, the climate was reported to be by no means 

 too healthy, and we found that most of the residents 

 here, as in other parts of North-East Rhodesia, took 

 quinine daily, as a preventive against the prevail- 

 ing malaria. We were told that before this custom 

 had been introduced by the senior medical officer, 

 the mortality from this fever had been high. 



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