He told us we should now get better, and, perfectly satisfied, took his leave.
The hut was swarming with rats and white ants, the former racing over our bodies during the night and burrowing through the floor, filling our only room with mounds like molehills.

As fast as we stopped the holes, others were made with determined perseverance.

Having a supply of arsenic, I gave them an entertainment, the effect being disagreeable to all parties, as the rats died in their holes and created a horrible effluvium, while fresh hosts took the place of the departed.

Now and then a snake would be seen gliding within the thatch, having taken shelter front the pouring rain.
The small-pox was raging throughout the country, and the natives were dying like flies in winter.

The country was extremely unhealthy, owing to the constant rain and the rank herbage, which prevented a free circulation of air, and the extreme damp induced fevers.