The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-22

I, it leaves a grease spot as large as my l hand on the floor.
 | Another internal insect is the digger. l | don't know where I got mine, whether on | shore or on ship, but my native boy has
 extracted the eggs of three of these pests | from under my toes during the voyage. | The digger Is a little insect which bores a hole in one's flesh, choosing the foot and usually places under the toenails. It 1 lays its eggs there In the form of little | sack about as big as a pearl shirt but | ton, and this sack must be cut out at | once. If not the eggs hatch, they turn | into worms which eat about through the | flesh and often cause the loss of the | toe. The insect is supposed to have orig inally come from South America, but 1t has already travelled over this half of | Africa and 1t is especially bad about Lake I Victoria.
 Waterspouts of Flies.
 | As to mosquitoes, we have none here on l the lake and practically no flies except | the common house fly. The shores are | infested with the tsetse fly, whose bits causes the sleeping sickness; but this | lives only in the swamps and cannot
 stand the light of the sun. There are | plenty of mosquitoes of all kinds on land, | and there are sWarms of midgets in many l parts of the lake. I saw such a swarm l this morning. It looked like waterspouf | rising from the surface. thought it was | one, and was surprised when the captain 1 told me that it was composed of myraids i Of these midges, which are born in the water and fly up al one time into the 1 air. They sweep over the lake In great numbers. raining down upon the boats | as though they were so much black pep | per- They come in such quantities tha t | the men sweep them up with brooms and throw them overheard. They even get into the cabins and cover the dining
 tables. This is so when the ports ara | covered With netting and when every open space is apparently protected Theso files are perfectly harmless, and they do not live more than day
 What One Eats on Lake Victoria. As to other matters as I have said. l the accommodations on the boats ara 1 good. We have four or five meals a day. and the Hindoos cook we'll This | morning, for instance, I was awakened 1 by my black boy at [, who brought me a cup of tea and a cracker At S:3O | the breakfast bell rang and l went into ] the saloon for a substantial meal of an orange, some fried herring bacon | and eggs, with marmalade and toast at l the end. The coffee served was grown about the lake and was poorly made, | but the tea, which I next ordered. was
 
 pea soup, boiled tongue, roast mutton | and chicken curry with rice, ending | up with dessert of California canned | apricots and native fruits. We shall have dinner at 8 o'clock tonight, and our table will be lighted by electricity. l The meal will be about the same as the lunch, and we shall probably drink l with it glass or so of ginger gle, l while our English friends will wash 1 their throats with whisky and soda or wine or beer, as they order. The cost of such meals is $1.65 a day, with | extra charges for drinks. I have be- , fore me the wine list and give few | of the prices. A full peg of whisk y and soda costs 8 annas, or about 25
 cents, while a half-peg costs 15 cents.
 Brandy may be had at the same prices. ! The word pegs" for drinks" is. used here on all bills of fare. This is com 1 mon throughout India. and 1t arises 1 from an old saying that every drink of intoxicating liquors one takes is a | peg in his coffin. If you want man | to take drink with you you ask him
 to come and have peg, and there are
 certain hours of the day which are
 known as peg times" or simply
 pegs"
 As for me- am drinking the water 1 of the lake. Our missionary on board tells me that 1t Is perfectly safe, and
 I know 1t tastes as sweet as the wa ters of Lake Erie.
 Tho lsIands of Lake Victoria.
 As I write we are coming near land
 During a great part of today we havt
 been out of sight of anything hut-islands