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head foremost rig-lit into yon, while Culex always medi- 

 tates for a Avhile before biting-." Professor Hilgard 

 further stated that in those marshes there is little or no 

 malaria and that he had been exposed there for weeks 

 without injury, nor did the inhabitants complain of chills 

 or fever. But in the Arkansas bottoms it took him only 

 a few days to succumb, and the natives "luxuriated in 

 * aofue cake.' " 



