Jungle trails and jungle people : travel, adventure and abservation in the Far East . y un-healthful country here and elsewhere in the FarEast, I escaped serious attacks. I always took theprecaution to first boil water before drinking it,and, in the most noxious parts of the swampyjungle where we had many times to camp, tokeep a fire going all night with the smoke blow-ing across me; yet I did not wholly plan I pursued and which I believe in alarge measure answered for my good health, wasto have my servant bring me at daylight a full,large cup of strong, milkless, sugarless coff
Jungle trails and jungle people : travel, adventure and abservation in the Far East . y un-healthful country here and elsewhere in the FarEast, I escaped serious attacks. I always took theprecaution to first boil water before drinking it,and, in the most noxious parts of the swampyjungle where we had many times to camp, tokeep a fire going all night with the smoke blow-ing across me; yet I did not wholly plan I pursued and which I believe in alarge measure answered for my good health, wasto have my servant bring me at daylight a full,large cup of strong, milkless, sugarless coffee,which I drank to fortify my stomach against theearly morning miasma. It may have been fancy,but it served me well. Dysentery, which may runinto fatal cholera, is the most dreaded of lurkingjungle dangers, but though attacked several timesehlorodyne safeguarded me promptly and effec-tually. Ram continued to hold court day after day andto assure me between sittings of my getting thebuffalo I sought; but by this time I knew that untilthe chief of the Burmese line had completed his. SOME OF MY assumed the clothing of civilization in an effort to protect their bodies against the
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