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really need to dose. Days did come when I needed 

 it pretty badly, yet never so badly that I could not 

 travel, and on such occasions I took from fifteen 

 to twenty-five grains to knock out the fever I could 

 feel coming on. And the knockout generally fol- 

 lowed, for though I got into some notoriously un- 

 healthful country here and elsewhere in the Far 

 East, I escaped serious attacks. I always took the 

 precaution to first boil water before drinking it, 

 and, in the most noxious parts of the swampy 

 jungle where we had many times to camp, to 

 keep a fire going all night with the smoke blow- 

 ing across me; yet I did not wholly escape. 

 Another plan I pursued and which I believe in a 

 large measure answered for my good health, was 

 to have my servant bring me at daylight a full, 

 large cup of strong, milkless, sugarless coffee, 

 which I drank to fortify my stomach against the 

 early morning miasma. It may have been fancy, 

 but it served me well. Dysentery, which may run 

 into fatal cholera, is the most dreaded of lurking- 

 jungle dangers, but though attacked several times 

 chlorodyne safeguarded me promptly and effec- 

 tually. 



Earn continued to hold court day after day and 

 to assure me between sittings of my getting the 

 buffalo I sought ; but by this time I knew that until 

 the chief of the Burmese line had completed his 



