496 LEWIS'S AMEKICAN SPORTSMAN. 



well-being, while the other is tainted with the germs or exciting 

 causes of numerous epidemic and endemic affections. 



Therefore, if the sportsman should visit the malarious districts 

 during the season of these poisonous exhalations, it behooves him 

 to be extremely cautious how he exposes himself to their delete- 

 rious influences. He should not, in the first place, be too eager to 

 sally forth to the fields before the morning mists are absorbed by 

 the benign rays of the sun and all the malarious effluvia wafted off 

 by the gentle morning breezes. Nor should he toil too much in 

 the heat of the day, so as to enervate his frame to such an extent 

 as to destroy the equable balance of health, and thus render his 

 system more susceptible to the poisonous malaria engendered 

 around him. Nor should he permit his love of sport to beguile 

 him to remain out in the field after Father Sol has dipped below 

 the horizon ; otherwise, the evening's fog may shortly treat him to 

 an unfriendly "shake." But, above all, he should avoid sleeping 

 in malarious districts with open windows. If the weather be chilly, 

 have a fire, if possible, in your bedroom, or fumigate it thoroughly 

 with cigar-smoke before retiring: we say cigar-smoke, as this is 

 generally the most pleasant mode of fumigation to which a sports- 

 man has it in his power to resort. In the absence of this, however, 

 have recourse to the burning of paper or rags, or adopt any other 

 method that the ingenuity of the party may suggest. A little 

 brown sugar or a handful of feathers thrown on a hot shovel will 

 assist materially in disinfecting a sleeping-apartment in a ma- 

 larious region. 



The exhalations of a noxious country are all destroyed by the 

 cold weather, and we may then visit those districts which are quite 

 unapproachable during the spring and summer months, owing to 

 the existence of this aeriform substance, termed "miasma," that is 

 sure to fix upon a stranger who is so imprudent as to venture there 

 in the sickly season. 



