81 THROUGH ANGOLA 



We moved camp at once, and I served out 

 large doses of quinine to all my men for several 

 days, but many of us were attacked by fever a 

 fortnight later. (The incubation period of malaria 

 is from ten days to a fortnight.) 



In the dry season in Africa, and this applies 

 to Angola, mosquitoes, except near swamps, are 

 never numerous, and these swamp mosquitoes 

 are usually not of the type that carry malaria. 

 Never have I seen such numbers of malarial 

 mosquitoes as on the Longoe River. One of my 

 boys said it should be called " bad river," because 

 its water was so salty ; it deserves this name for 

 its mosquitoes, and is one of the most dangerous 

 spots in Africa. 



On the great Sabi River in Mozambique I 

 once found a dozen malarial mosquitoes in my net, 

 near where four of a party of five Boer hunters 

 contracted malaria and died ; and I have come 

 across bad mosquito countries all over Africa, 

 but never like the Longoe River. I would strongly 

 advise hunters coming from Lobito by wagon road 

 and by railway, to keep well south of this fever 

 country, which is far inferior as a sable ground to 

 that farther south. 



The next few days were spent in trying to get 

 photographs of sable, and with hard work and 

 painful stalking some two dozen more pictures 

 of herds and single animals were taken, at distances 

 of from 50 to 150 yards. A bull had also to be 

 killed for food, much to my regret, as it had been 

 impossible to find other game or obtain Hour. 

 With a diminished ration, my carriers had become 



