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day, or in two, or three, or four days' time, according 
to the type it may assume ; that is to say, unless you 
can prevent its recurrence by the use of the proper 
remedies. Quinine is, of course, our sheet-anchor in 
our struggles with this malady. The effect of this 
remedy is wonderful. You feel it going through your 
system, seizing upon the disease and driving it out, 
like one spirit expelling another. A great deal has 
been said about the possibility of becoming acclima- 
tized in the course of time, but our experience speaks 
rather against than in favour of the popular notion of 
acclimatization. If we have had one we shall be 
within bounds if we say that we have had hundreds 
of fevers, and we continued to have them to the end 
of a ten years' residence in Africa ; indeed, they have 
followed us to this country. Still they have not been 
so violent of late years as they were formerly. The 
attacks we get now, however, are sufficiently severe. 
They come upon you most insidiously. Before you 
are aware of it you find yourself carried away ; all 
your powers are paralyzed, and you fall completely 
prostrate. 
Life at Ribe is sadly marred by the presence and 
constant recurrence of fever. The first year is 
generally a struggle for existence. We certainly 
found this to be the case. It is not in every instance 
that the struggle is successful, many cannot but 
succumb. This must be so everywhere in East Africa. 
Among the merchants of Zanzibar, the missionaries 
of the University's mission of the same place, the 
missionaries of the Church Missionary Society at 
Rabai, a large proportion have died. We too have 
suffered in the same way. As we have already 
