Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-09-04
AFRICA.
The Climate and Its Effects on White Men.

The Climate and It's Effects on White Men.
Stanley says the climate OF the Con-
60 country is not more dangerous than
that OF other tropical countries. He
believes it less dangerous, if proper
hygienic rules are observed. His par
ty has tested it for six years, and he
says 'there is less sickness, by half, in
| the Congo Basin, even in it's present
unprepared condition, than there is in
the bottom lands of Arkanas, State
which has doubled it's population in
the last twenty-fv years. Many Of
been badly located. From the moment
of arrival III equatorial Africa ''the
! body undergoes a new experience, and
a wise man will begin to govern
his appetite and his conduct accord
ingly. The head that was covered
with a, proud luxuriance Of flowing
locks, or bristled busy and thick, must
be shorn close; the body must be di-
vested of that wind and rain-proof
armour of linen and wool in which it
was accustomed to be encased in high
ATTITUDES, and must assume, If ease
and pleasure are preferable to discorn-
fort, garments OF soft, loose, light fam
nels. That head-covering which Lon;
don and Paris patronize must give
place to the helmet and puggaree, or
to a we'll ventilated, light cap with
curtain. And as those decorous ex-
ternals of Europe, with their somber
coloring and cumbrous thickness,
must yield to the more graceful and
airy-hannel of the tropics, SO the APP
petite, the extravagant power OF d.
gestion, the seemingly uncontrol-~
liable and ever -famished lust for
animal food and the distempered
greed for ardent drinks, must be gov
erned by an absolutely new regime.
Any liquid that is exciting, Or, as 9th.
ers may choose to term it, exhilarat-!.
ing or inspiring, the unseasoned Euro.
pean must avoid during daylight,
| whether il be in the guise Of the COM
monty believed innocuous lager, mild
! Pilsen, watery claret, vim ordinaire, or
| any other innocent wine or baer.
| Otherwise the slightest indiscretion,
! the least unusual effort Or spasmodic
industry, may in one short hour prove
fatal. It is my duty not to pander to
a. depraved taste, nor to be too nice IN
offending it. am compelled to speak
strongly by our losses, by my own
griet in remembering the young, the:
strong and the brave who have slain
themselves through their own ignor~
ance"
Stanley's experience with African
fever. "On the Goth, of May, 1881,
about z a. M, my sickness and weak
ness seemed to have approached q
climax. AS soon as awoke to clear
ness OF mind and realized the dreadful
prostration Of my body, q PRESENT.
ment possessed me that should die.
Weaker than this, and yet possessing
powers OF speech and thought, I doubt
! ed whether man could possibly be,
with which idea came the thought that
the crisis had arrived, andthat death
was not far of. Dualla meantime has
weighed out sixty grains Of quinine,
over which he has dropped few min
inns of hydrobromic acid, and poured
an ounce Of Madeira wine, which he,
must deliver between my lips for if all
the world were given to me 1could not
lift the glass unaided. Like lightning
the potent medicine coursed through
my veins felt it's overpowering in.
fluence stealing rapidly over my fast
bewildering senses. Again and again /
4 strove strenuously to utter the words
that would not frame.
~f"tLook we'll Oh me, Albert cried.
DO not move. Fasten your eyes on
me that may tell you 55
"And the young sailor whose hand
clasped mine, fixed his eyes steadily
on mine to enable me to conquer the
oppressive drowsiness, and the SEN
tence was. at last, after many efforts,
delivered clearly and intelligently, at
which / felt so relieved from my dis
| tress that I cried out, 4 am savedv
Then suddenly dark cloud came over
me, the perception Of the scene faded
away, and oblivion, which lasted many
hours, shut out the sense Of things. :
When Stanley awoke he asked for
food. After many days hewas able to
| be up and about, though his weight was
! reduced to one hundred pounds.