1 62 SPORT IN ABYSSINIA. 



fortably. This proceeding was a terrible mistake, as 

 it is in the night time and the early dawn that these 

 chills are acquired, which prove at all times most 

 deadly, especially in a hot climate. 



On the whole, I should consider Abyssinia to be a 

 very healthy country. The only two complaints which 

 Europeans seem to suffer from are intermittent fevers 

 — which are not, as a rule, of a very dangerous nature 

 — and dysentery, which, of course, if proper remedies 

 and suitable food are at hand, is not serious, but 

 under other circumstances may prove very dangerous. 

 Let me urge upon all travellers who go to seek ad- 

 venture and sport in Africa to remember to keep their 

 heads well protected from the sun, and their loins well 

 girded with either a thick cumberbund, worn outside, 

 or, better still, a flannel belt worn next the skin. 

 Every one will notice that the natives are dressed in 

 this way, especially the Arabs who live at Massowah, 

 where the climate is very hot. It would be useless 

 for me to go into the different diseases the natives of 

 the country are subject to. There is one which I have 

 already mentioned, that is the taenia, or tajaeworm. 

 They are also subject to intermittent fevers during 

 the rains, and suffer from a complaint caused by a 

 parasite called the Guinea worm, which is a worm that 

 forms in the flesh, very often the thigh, and has to be 

 gradually twisted out. If during the operation the 



