Show AFRICAN DANGERS Now the tile east is growing alarmed over over the prospective prospective pros pros- perils that the president will meet with when he reaches Africa Frederick Bellman HeUman a mining engineer engineer engineer en en- of New York City tells the Times that in addition addition ad ad- to tOI the tuG danger of being attacked by lions leopards leop leop- ards arcis buffalo and elephants there arc are three diseases that must be if possible avoided Mr Ir Hellman started in November 1907 accompanied by his wife and a couple of other engineers from Johannesburg South Africa They walked through the African forest for for- cst est on the road from Entebbe direct to Albert Ny- Ny anza Ho says along the road lions and elephants frequently crossed their path but the Ule animals seemed to have other business ahead and did not molest the travelers but the most dreaded disease in the protectorate is the sleeping sickness He looks upon that with a great deal of horror It comes from the sting of the tsetse fly One doctor had the disease and traveled with Mr Ir Hellman down the white whito Nile He had been stung near Lake Take Victoria Nyanza and died three months after he reached Eng Eng- Eng I land N He says over natives have died of the sleeping sickness in the islands in Lake Victoria Nya Nyanza Nyanza Ny- Ny a anza in the last few years and a large proportion of white men This fly inhabits the banks of the rivers and lakes where there is heavy hea foliage and above all things should be avoided The next most dangerous disease there is called th the fever The germs are carried by the spir- spir itura tick The disease has only lately been known and no direct cure eure has been discovered for it The fever causes the temperature of the patient to rise to 10 producing delirium and the only relief is to wrap the head in a cloth and pour a stead steady stream of cold coldwater coldwater water over it until the tue fever is s reduced Quinine is of no DO use nse for either disorder is not looked upon as especially dangerous but most unpleasant and ind causes temporary blindness and its victims have to sleep in a n dark room for six sis months There are other fevers not dangerous and can be controlled by quinine but after having these fevers there is danger of developing black water fever which is fatal to the white man It seems that while the white man finally explored darker Africa that the wilderness resents his coming upon him new and unheard of diseases We think the president will get through all right because the will of a man has hns much to do with sickness and if the president treats diseases as he does his fellow fellowman fellowman fellowman man anything that interferes with his comfort he lie will resent and fight back baek |