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remittent like ' General Tazo ' of Madagascar : as 

 on the Niger, this ' acclimatizing fever ' usually 

 appears before the 16th day. My companion was 

 prostrated a few hours afterwards, and next day I 

 followed their example. Valentino, who escaped 

 at Panga-ni, came in for his turn at Zanzibar; 

 and, as a proof that the negro enjoys no im- 

 munity, Sidi Bombay suffered severely in early 

 June. 



I have no doubt that had Dr Steinhaeuser 

 been with us, or had we been acquainted with 

 the prophylactic treatment of quinine, first de- 

 veloped by the later Niger expeditions, and after- 

 wards practised by myself with so much success 

 on the West Coast of Africa, we should have 

 escaped with a light visitation instead of danger- 

 ous and almost deadly attacks. But we had also 

 imprudently taxed strength and endurance to 

 the utmost, before our constitutions had been 

 accustomed to the climate. As a rule, the travel- 

 ler in these lands should at first avoid exposure 

 and fatigue beyond a certain point to the very 

 best of his ability. He might as well practise 

 sitting upon a coal fire as hardening himself to 

 the weather — which green men have attempt- 

 ed. Dr Bialloblotsky, a Polish professor who 

 had begun travelling at the end of a long life 



