MOSQUITO NETS AND VEILS. 467 



continued, notwithstanding the alleged certain cures 

 that had been vainly tried. 



There really remains therefore but one alternative 

 for the fisherman, and that is to cover the hands and 

 face by mosquito netting fine enough to exclude the 

 finest insect enemy. This is the cheapest, best, and the 

 only effectual plan. A broad-brimmed wide-awake 

 hat must be worn; around it must be fixed a veil, or 

 bag of this netting. This must be closely fitted with 

 a string to the hat, so that nothing can get in there, 

 and the lower end of it should be tucked carefully in 

 under the coat collar and vest. Nothing can then 

 attack the head. This is a nuisance in close, warm 

 weather, it must be admitted, but there is no alternative 

 in a really fly-stricken district. The hands, of course, 

 must in the same way be protected by long and stout 

 gauntlets: the sleeves made fast above: and the 

 trousers by gaiters below. That being carefully done 

 the fisherman may bid defiance to flies. Mosquitoes 

 can now only attack on spots like the knee or shoulder 

 where the clothes fit tight, and in case of need such 

 spots can, and should be, guarded by padding. In 

 broad waters mosquitoes will follow a boat a long way 

 from land. If however, there is a wind, they will not 

 attempt this, and by rowing out some little way from 

 land, and then returning to the fishing ground, these 

 pests may, when there is a breeze, be effectually got 

 rid of for the time, and the net can be put up and wound 

 round the hat. Near the water there are not only mos- 

 quitoes, but minute black and other flies, which at certain 

 seasons are very troublesome ; but they mostly stay near 

 the cover of bushes on the banks, and seldom venture 

 out far upon the water if there is a breeze, or rains. 



