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At the end of eight days I felt bad and came down to Ayermadidi. That 

 was on April I2th, and from then on I had more or less fever and finally 

 mumps and high fever. This gradually increased so that I was unable to eat 

 or drink anything for 9 days. As quinine had no effect on the fever I finally 

 had to go to Menado to the military doctor there. He stopped my fever in 

 two days, but then I was nearly " all in," my temperature way below normal 

 and pulse little more than fifty. I came around all right anyhow, so that I 



Fig. 33.— " Betchie," my Ijlack monkey from 1 oh i oli, 

 a most affectionate and gentle animal. She remembered 

 me after an absence of ten months. 



could walk after four or five days and now am all right but a little weak. The 

 hotel at Menado (or in fact anywhere, where one can get European food) is 

 expensive; here is better (cheaper) than Menado and cooler. T^e doctor said 

 I should go to Tondano for a couple of months where the climate is very cool, 

 but if I improve as of late I think that in less than a week I can start for 

 Lembeh and do some collecting. Lembeh has no resident population, whereas 

 Tondano has more than 12,000. 



