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But in the tropics, the native land of the hammock, not only the mysteries of the night, but the affairs of the day may be legitimately investigated from this aerial point of view. It is a fetish of belief in hot countries that every unacclimatized white man must, sooner or later, succumb to that sacred custom, the siesta.
My uncle gets it now and then." "I think I warned you against our fevers," Francisca replied meaningly. "There are two or three kinds, but all are not dangerous." "Some are?" Kit suggested. "Yes; to foreigners. We others take precautions and are acclimatized." "Well," said Kit in a thoughtful voice, "I have not had fever yet, but I suppose an unacclimatized adventurer runs some risk."
But he has exposed himself to the inevitable chill after midnight, he is unacclimatized, and both places are exceptionally deadly to say nothing of the liquor. The experienced African traveller awaking with a chilly skin, swallows a tumbler of cold water, and rolls himself in a blanket till he perspires; there is only one alternative.
The prolonged resistance of Hatra, the sufferings of the Romans, their increasing difficulties with respect to provisions, the injurious effect of the summer heats upon their unacclimatized constitutions, would have been irresistible temptations to a prince of any spirit or energy, inducing him to advance as the Romans retired, to hang upon their rear, to cut off their supplies, and to render their retreat difficult, if not disastrous.
He, like his commander, had to sleep in the open, almost without food, and he also succumbed to fever, fatigue, and exhaustion. The cause of this prodigious mortality appears in the records of the expedition. Officers and men were all raw, unseasoned, and unacclimatized.
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