BULLET AND SHOT 



ground. Truly it is difficult to know how to save 

 such people from the consequences of their own 

 carelessness and apathy. 



One great factor in the preservation of health 

 in India is attention to the internal economy, and 

 every servant should be warned, should the 

 slightest symptoms of his requiring one occur, 

 to at once come to his master and ask for a 

 purgative. 



In India almost every ailment, from whatever 

 cause originating, appears to cause a rise in the 

 temperature of the body ; consequently, when a 

 native "boy" comes up and says that he has 

 "plenty bad fever," his master's first inquiry 

 should be directed towards ascertaining whether 

 he stands in need of the above-mentioned cor- 

 rective, and if so, it should be administered in 

 potent form (for natives require something very 

 moving) at once. 



Before starting on a jungle trip, every servant 

 should be supplied with a suit of warm clothes 

 and a blanket, and, in the rains, a waterproof cape 

 and a waterproof turban cover should be given 

 also. 



I have tried but I believe it to be useless to try 

 to induce them to boil their drinking water when 

 in camp, and I don't suppose that other sportsmen 

 are likely to succeed better than I have done in 

 this particular. Of course they would say that 

 they do so, if they knew that it would please their 

 master to be told this. 



If a servant should get seriously ill in camp, 



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