WITH FLASH-LIGHT AND RIFLE 



than in the open, uninhabited steppe. Europeans and 

 natives from mountainous regions suffer more from it 

 than those from the lowlands, and with them it is very 

 apt to prove mortal. In certain camping-places twenty 

 or more of my men were ill with the fever, but never 

 very dangerously. In 1899 I tried in vain to induce a 

 number of Wapare, who live in the Pare Mountains, to 

 carry my collection of skins to the coast. They loved 

 the money which they might earn, but they loved 

 themselves much more. They claimed that the sight 

 of the ocean would cause them to die. At the bottom 

 of this superstition is, no doubt, the mountaineer's fear 

 of the fever of the steppe. 



The progress of an expedition is often impeded when 

 sores of many kinds incapacitate the men to carry their 

 loads with comfort or speed. In such cases application 

 of carbolic acid will often effect quick cures. When 

 the caravan has encamped for the night or a longer rest 

 my patients come to my tents with the request, " Bwana 

 kubwa, nataka dana!" I never refuse a man though 

 he may try my patience when I feel ill myself or tired 

 or have other work on hand. Aloe pills, dover pills, 

 ipecac, eye-salve, or medicated cotton are given or 

 applied, and a vessel with Lysol. solution for bathing 

 wounds and sores is within reach. 



A plague of recent importation into East Africa is 

 the troublesome sand-flea {Sarcopsylla penetrans) . These 

 parasites were brought on ships from South America 



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