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The salt water will do him good, and any dryness of 

 the skin can be corrected by rubbing on coconut oil, 

 which will also be found quite efficacious in keeping 

 mosquitoes off the face, hands, and neck. A regular 

 mosquito sleeping-net is essential if there is to be any 

 shore living : buy a piece of calico 6 feet by 30 inches 

 and 6 yards of best mosquito netting 72 inches wide ; 

 sew the netting all round the calico, to the corners of 

 which suspending cords may be attached. A water- 

 proof sheet, such as is made by Andersons of St. Paul's 

 Churchyard, is also useful. It is perhaps unnecessary 

 to add that all clothes, particularly boots, should be 

 washed in fresh water after being wetted by sea water, 

 and that needles and plenty of thread will frequently 

 save much expense. 



Medicines, etc. — For 20s. to 30s. a quite sufficient 

 stock for an ordinarily healthy man can be procured, 

 perhaps a small tin case from some well-known firm 

 of makers, 10 by 6 by 6 inches. Its actual contents 

 will vary with the peculiarities of each individual. 

 Health in the tropics is treated of in many pamphlets 

 and books, giving the use of simple drugs and methods 

 of bandaging, etc. The author, who, having had con- 

 siderable experience, is able to adapt common materials 

 for his purposes, takes with him a double knife lancet, 

 two clinical thermometers, four bandages of different 

 breadths, a card of safety-pins, cotton-wool, a small 

 packet of cyanide gauze, a packet of lint, 4 ounces of 

 zinc ointment made stiff, dark glasses, a wooden phial 

 of tabellae of cocaine in case of eye-soreness, and 

 2-ounce bottles of each of the following drugs : sul- 

 phate of quinine, 5-grain tabloids ; salicylate of 

 quinine, 5-grain tabloids ; sodium salicylate (the 

 natural salt), loose ; Dover's powder, loose ; ipecac- 

 uanha, loose ; bismuth subnitrate, tabloids, 5 grains ; 



