44 Notes on South African Hunting, 
A Gentle Purgative. 
had been moved eighty miles away up the 
river, and that nothing had been left behind 
except a friend of Mr. Westbeach’s, Mr. Block- 
ley by name. This gentleman treated us with 
the utmost kindness, and did everything in his 
power for us ; but even he could not bring the 
store to us, so next day we left the horses with 
him, and started to walk to the store, 
Mr. Blockley succeeded in doing a thing 
which few gunmakers could do satisfactorily. 
As I have said, my rifle was broken right in 
two across the small. I shewed it to Mr. 
Blockley, and he at once set to work, and 
actually mended it with the inside of an 
elephant’s ear in such a way that I was quite 
able to shoot with it afterwards. 
Amongst other things I was talking to Mr. 
Blockley about the fever, which is, of course, 
frightfully virulent on the river. He told me 
he had lived on the river for fourteen years, 
and had only once been out to Shoshong ! He 
also added that he had fever most years. Now 
the ordinary treatment of fever is a fairly strong 
purgative, followed by quinine. I asked Mr. 
Blockley what purgative he took after having 
