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high-legged boots. As if these tiny pests could not 

 easily crawl into the boots from above ! Mere and there, 

 in spite of all my precautions, I have found them on my 

 own body. But my worst experience of them was when 

 I was confined to bed for a long time after a heavy 

 attack of (ever ; no less than seven sand-Hies, as 



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as peas, were removed from my toes by one of my 

 black boys 



Dogs and monkeys in captivity are very skiltul in 

 relieving themselves of these odious pests ; but they 

 always get infested again. 



During my many years of African travelling I have 

 never had much trouble from flies with the exception 

 of the tsetse-fly and never found the fly-pest in any 

 way so distressing as in some places on the Somali Coast. 



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