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any permanent truce, till one or other of the 
combatants shall cease to be. To the future 
dweller in these regions I say, Take your mosquito 
curtains by all means; they at least adorn the 
bungalow, and make a pretty figure, with their 
blue or cardinal satin loops. But do not trust to 
them, and do not be much disappointed if they 
fail in the hour of need to shield you from your 
enemy. The native antidote for this domestic 
trouble is burning cow-dung or other refuse in 
the middle of their apartments, which I think I 
have already described as possessing no chimneys. 
I must frankly say, after one particular experi¬ 
ence of this mode of cure, that I infinitely prefer 
the mosquitoes. 
