. Land and peoples of the Kasai; being a narrative of a two years' journey among the cannibals of the equatorial forest and other savage tribes of the south-western Congo . turbing which it wasnecessary to dress with caution. We used literally to runfrom the shelter of our big net to our tents when we wentto bed, and then used to turn in without lighting a candlefor fear that a light might attract still more of the fever-spreading insects, which must breed in countless millionsin the forest swamps which lie close to the bad are the mosquitoes at Gandu that natives stayingfor a
. Land and peoples of the Kasai; being a narrative of a two years' journey among the cannibals of the equatorial forest and other savage tribes of the south-western Congo . turbing which it wasnecessary to dress with caution. We used literally to runfrom the shelter of our big net to our tents when we wentto bed, and then used to turn in without lighting a candlefor fear that a light might attract still more of the fever-spreading insects, which must breed in countless millionsin the forest swamps which lie close to the bad are the mosquitoes at Gandu that natives stayingfor a night there who are unprovided with cotton sheltersunder which to sleep, often prefer to find some compara-tively dry spot in the forest and lie down out of doors at therisk of being killed by leopards to being eaten alive by themosquitoes in the wood-cutters huts by the river. Gandu,therefore, is by no means pleasant by night, and by dayit is scarcely more desirable, for the tsetse-fly, the bearerof the deadly sleeping sickness, is very prevalent, and onecan hardly avoid being frequently bitten by it if one doesnot take advantage of the protection of mosquito Hi ft • M i ft A B iSl >NGl >-M EN( I \\ ARRII »R
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