Stanley in Africa: the Wonderful Discoveries And Thrilling Adventures of the ...
Stanley in Africa: the Wonderful Discoveries And Thrilling Adventures of the ...
James Penny Boyd
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The young man may not have thought he was sitting in a cool night air, according to his European notions of temperature, but an evening in Africa, or a draught of air, presents as dangerous a con- trast with midday heat, or as insidious a cause for congestion, as in any other coi^^y. Stanley suffered with 120 attacks of fever, great and slignt; and endured fully 100 of them before he began to suspect that other causes existed for them besides malaria and miasma, or that he had within himself a ...better preventive than quinine. His observations, directed toward the last to this one point, utterly astounded him with the fact that the most sickness might have been witnessed at those stations which were not sur- rounded by putrifying vegetation, but had been selected so as to secure the highest degree of health. Old Yivi is one of these spots, THE WHITE KAN IN AFRICA. 543 aiiaated on a rocky platform, with steep drainage, and with the majestic riyer dashing off between the slopes of high mountains for a distance of forty miles.
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