Arizona republican., 1898-05-04
CUBAN CLIMATE A BOGY.
Experienced Travellers Give Interest ing and Valuable Information.

Washington, May 3.-Mf. William 1 T. Hornaday, chief naturalist of the Smithsonian institution, has sIent i nearly ten years in East india, Borneo and Sumatra jungles, collecting rare ! birds, insects ani serpe ents | for the Smithsonian. He is the only | white man who ever lived among the Dayak head hunters of Borneo.
 "All this talk of the danger in Cuba of the rainy season, yellow fever, etc.. is greatly exaggerated" MT. Horna- day said today Because the Spanish army has lost so heavily, many unin- formed persons fear that the country would be as fatal to newly arrived Americans as it was to green Span iards. The Spanish troops I saw were wretchedly fed and clothed, and abso- lutely no heed is taken to enforce the most obvious sanitary regulations. Then the food, clothing, medicines, everything the men should have to live upon, is furnished by contractors, who stand in with the officers, and simply starve the poor soldiers into disease and death. The Spanish wo- men have a saying, When our sons go to Cuba or the Philippines they never return Many Spanish mother whose son is coming near the time when he must do service in the army, 1 is praying that Cuba and Porto Rico may be lost to Spain before her son goes away.
 "After five years of living in the most malarial jungles on earth, in the midst of miasmatic swamps, drinking swamp water, and often having to eat unaccustomed and badly cooked food. I never had but one touch of jungle fever, and that only laid me up six or
 seven days. I owe my excellent health to two or three precautions. I never slept on the bare ground, nor
 in the rain, and always under shelter.
 l always wore light flannels next to
 the skin, and never slept in damp clothes. Whatever else I might have to do without, two changes of flannel underwear, besides that had on. were always at hand. Take from six to five grains of quinine every morning
 in a cup of hot coffee if you have it;
 Ii not, then in hot water. Have your shoes to fit you, even if you must buy them yourself, though the United
 States is furnishing it's troops with an
 excellent marching shoe With these precautions and a dose of some light
 laxative twice each week, there need
 be no more fear of fever in Cuba than 1 there is in Missouri"
 MT. Morrillas, Cuban born, and for
 some years as assistant surgeon in the
 United States navy, now in the marine
 hospital service in the tropics, said today: "The rainy season, as 1t is
 called out of Cuba, is to Cubans the most charming season of the year. Ii begins generally about the middle oi
 May and lasts to the middle of Sep tember. It usually rains in the after noon, and sometimes the fall is very heavy and accompanied by such thun- der and lightning as one never knows
 outside the tropics. It generally stops at sunset, which is simply unspeakably
 grand in it's cloud effects. I rarely
 ever have known it to rain at night It is this so-called rainy season that
 gives life and vigor to the growing vegetation and makes our sugar and tobacco crops what they are. By eat. ing we'll cooked food, and eschewins
 over-indulgence in the fruits of tn
 country, usually so cmpCng t(
 strangers, always sleeping under som' sort of shelter, and not on the bart ground, the green Yankee from New Hampshire hills may laugh at the bogy
 of the rainy season and the yellow fe- , yer. It is well for the unacclimatet man fha fret fhrae rnoOfhQ If his stay to take from three to six grains oi
 quinine every morning, and a milo
 purgative, say twice week. You may
 be as wet as possible, if you are or
 the move, but when you stop, chan g your wet clothes for dry ones, socks and all. You will never have this re-
 yer if you follow these easily remem-
 bered rules"