With Flashlight and Rifle -* 



routes, and in the vicinity of the populated neighbour- 

 hoods, my people suffered much oftener and more severely 

 from malaria than on the velt, although this latter is 

 very unhealthy for Europeans and for inhabitants of the 

 mountain-regions. At certain camping-places, ten, twenty, 

 or even more, among my servants would suddenly fall 

 sick with malaria, which, however, they usually got over 

 in a fairly short time. 



The opinion is wide-spread in Europe that the 

 natives do not suffer from malaria. This is not only not 

 the case, but the dwellers in the mountain-regions are 

 liable to very severe attacks when they go down into 

 the plains. I have seen the greater number of a band 

 of Wadshaga men who were sent down to the plains 

 for lime-burning, suffer quite unusually badly from malaria 

 when they returned home again after some days' stay in 

 the lowlands, and a great number of them succumbed 

 within a few days. 



In the famine-year of 1899, I could not obtain 

 Wapare, inhabitants of the Pare mountain-chain, at any 

 price, to carry my zoological specimens to the coast, 

 although the people were eager to earn something. 

 They even declared themselves only prepared to take 

 my loads to a certain point near the coast ; the sight 

 of the sea, they said, would mean death to them ! This 

 fancy was not without a certain foundation in fact, 

 for everywhere; the highlanders are liable, as has been 

 said, to frequent and severe attacks of fever when once 

 they descend to the plains. 



Injuries of various kinds, feet-troubles especially, 



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