Show MADE DRUNK BY MOSQUITOES Small Posh Not the Wild Anlmalo Are the Real Trouble of the African Hunter ° Tho African mosquitoes lutoxlcato you They inject so much poison Into you that you nro dazed your eyes rolland roll-and you stagger and speak thickly In a word youre drunl aald n missionary mis-sionary In tho Nyassa country Id always start getting ready for bed and tho mosquitoes an hour boforo nuuseU Id i set up my mosquito net with the utmost ut-most caro Id clamp down Its edges with valises and boxes Id light Insldo it three green wood fire filling it with a bitter smoke that all Insects aro supposed to loathe Finally id get In myself Id smoko big PIPeS ot tho black native tobaeo and Id long miserably in that hot smoky atmosphere for the dawnDespite Despite all my precautions qulto 260 or 300 mosquitoes would got Inside in-side my net as soon as darkness fell THey wore like a whirlwind In there It couldnt have been worse Their noise and their nipping made mo feverish mado mo really delirious at times At last in exhaustion Id get a tow hours of troubled sleep awnkonlna for breakfast drunk from the poison injected by hundreds of tiny needles into my vtlns No it Isnt the elephants or the giraffes that trouble tho African hunt > or but tho skeoteru |