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made, it is not easy to procure camp cots of, say, 

 2 feet 9 inches in height, but it is better to have 

 such constructed than to run any risk of incurring 

 malarial fever. Although, as I have stated above, 

 malaria practically ceases in the monsoon, a dry 

 period may supervene in which it can be revived ; 

 and it may, and, I doubt not, does, linger at all 

 times in certain unfavoured spots. The higher 

 above the ground the sportsman may sleep, the 

 less risk there is of his suffering from malaria 

 even during the unhealthy season in the forests 

 and he must at all seasons sleep under mosquito 

 curtains. The mosquito curtain has long been 

 recognised as a safeguard against malaria, and a 

 medical savant has now propounded the somewhat 

 startling theory, that the poison of malaria (so- 

 called) is in reality originated by a diseased con- 

 dition in the mosquito itself, and is conveyed and 

 communicated to man by that insect, and many 

 elaborate experiments are being performed to test 

 the truth of this proposition. 



The remarks, under hill shooting, on the necessity 

 of obtaining a shooting licence (where one is 

 required), and of asking for the assistance of the 

 revenue and forest authorities, apply with equal 

 force in the case of the low-country forests. 



For bison shooting in the latter, I prefer boots 

 of soft native leather, made, as I have previously 

 recommended, without heels, and furnished with 

 only a few small nails to prevent slipping. Heels 

 make such a noise as no one who has not tested 

 it would believe possible, and the " tump tump " of 



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