HUNTING AND HUNTED IN BELGIAN CONGO 



reached the fever country. However unpleasant they 

 may taste, I think it wise to bite through the sugar- 

 coated capsule or tabloid of all medicine before swallow- 

 ing. Several instances can be cited from Africa and 

 elsewhere of people having passed the entire tabloid 

 intact, for the simple reason that the sugar coating is 

 too thick for it to be dissolved and the active drug to 

 be effective. In making this recommendation, I do not 

 wish to create any prejudice against the drugs which are 

 made up in capsule or tabloid form — far from it. The 

 medicine chests we had supplied by Messrs. Burroughs 

 Wellcome & Co. were invaluable, and ranked in importance 

 next to the guns and ammunition, without which one 

 would be lost. In my opinion there is nothing better 

 for travellers than the products of this firm, whose medi- 

 cines were put to a severe test on several occasions on 

 this trip in fire and flood, but always turned up smiling 

 and in perfect condition, for I carried them in the original 

 steel case supplied by the firm. 



The tent, which had now come to hand, with my bed, 

 was erected instantly on reaching camp. Monica and 

 Matakanga asked leave to go and get food for the boys 

 from a village that one of them had espied from the top 

 of a tree about two miles away. As I was too ill to 

 move myself, and there was no food in the camp, I had 

 perforce to let half a dozen boys visit the village to obtain 

 sufficient food for the rest of the party. On their return 

 they were all in a great state of excitement, for the 

 Shinzis had said that a white man had passed through 

 the village the previous day, going in a southerly direc- 

 tion. From the description given I felt certain that he 



was P , who doubtless by this time had come to meet 



me, and we had thus missed each other. 



It is not advisable to let your carriers stray far from 

 the camp, unless you can be with them, for the slightest 

 thing may create trouble with the natives. For instance, 



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