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a rhinoceros he had better not go there. The terrible 

 pest of the country is an insect, half mosquito, half 

 house-fly, having all the powers of inflicting wounds, with 

 something added, of the former, and the disgusting- 

 aggressiveness and familiarity of the latter, and unless 

 the sufferer consents to wear a green gauze veil covering 



his head and fastening 



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tightly at the neck, so 

 that all attacks on the 

 face are entirely pre- 

 vented, he will have 

 no peace. This pre- 

 ventive naturally de- 

 bars the wearer from 



THE FATAL SHADOW. 



taking pleasure in any form of sport, and therefore 

 nine people out of ten prefer to suffer in comparative 

 silence, and arrive in camp in the evening with a face 

 like a lobster. As the evening approached and the sun 

 sank down to the horizon in a blaze of glory, so departed 

 our little tormentors for a while. But not so the effect 

 of their thousand stings, and when one retired to bed it 



