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on after and during the rains (from May to November) ; 

 though the people in the low-country alongside will tell 

 yon that they are always feverish in some degree, and that 

 the cold months are the most feverish ones. My people have 

 in some cases had what they called fever during the cold 

 months ; but this was merely a severe cold brought on from 

 their not having fed or clothed themselves properly. 



Up to the time I am now writing (April), I have not heard 

 of any of ourselves or our people having been laid up 

 with fever. 



Mr. Minchin generally used to live in his bungalow at 

 Man tycondah through the hot weather, and on into June 

 when the rains had commenced ; and I do not think he, 

 or his family, were ever attacked. Of course, it would not 

 be a sensible proceeding for any man to sleep in the forest 

 valleys, if he could help it ; though Mr. Thomas and I had 

 generally to camp in such places during our two trips* 

 I may also mention that I drank water at nearly every place 

 (many miles distant from one another) where it was running 

 and clear, and our people did so too ; but Mr. Thomas had the 

 usual prejudice against jungle water, and would not 

 touch it, except in two cases, where he supposed for some 

 reasons of his own (just as I did !) that the water was 

 innocuous, 



part ii. — details of excursions. 

 Having thus described these mountains generally, as far 

 as they are already known; I shall proceed to give a short 

 description of each of the excursions we made, as that will 

 perhaps be the shortest way of giving the results, as far as 

 they may be useful to any future tourists, or interesting to 

 the general enquirer. 



It will be seen that one object of this paper is to 

 bring into more notice the forest capabilities of the range 



