AN ATTACK OF SUNSTROKE 



You can get sunstroke in the spine just as easily 

 as in the head, or almost as easily, and pyjamas are 

 not much of a protection. Very soon my head was 

 aching as though it would burst. At five o'clock we 

 landed at a tobacco plantation, which we had already 

 arranged to visit. By this time I was, properly 

 speaking, delirious. Afterwards I learned that I had 

 been all over the estate, that the whole process of 

 drying and curing had been explained to me by 

 Brackenbury ; but, as a matter of fact, my sole 

 recollection of it all is that some man seemed to want 

 to keep us out of a certain shed. Fortunately, the 

 manager of the estate, seeing what was the matter, 

 put me to bed, and dosed me so efficiently that the 

 following morning, although still very shaky, I was 

 clear-headed and out of danger. 



Lower down the river we stopped at a large rubber 

 plantation, where we were treated in right royal fashion 

 by the manager. It was whilst I was on the verandah 

 of the latter's house that I happened to notice a very 

 large hornbill, which kept on flying backwards and 

 forwards across the river. At last I marked down the 

 place in the forest to which he went, and made a 

 careful note of it. We could not wait then whilst I 

 went to investigate, but I determined to return later 

 on and endeavour to discover what was the meaning 

 of those repeated visits. 



Before we left I had an object-lesson in the dangers 



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