178 THE HIGHLANDS OF CENTEAL INDIA. 



with it the spirit of the plague. Tired out as we were it was 

 death to stay in this place ; so we re-loaded the things and 

 marched eight miles further, straight into the jungle ; and at 

 nightfall pitched our camp by the banks of the wide Tdwa 

 river, far from human habitation. No one was seized by the 

 disease ; and during all my marching, humanly speaking I 

 believe owing to proper sanitary precautions, I never had a 

 single case in my camp. 



