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Updated: July 7, 2025
Upon the banks of some of the South-American rivers, life is almost unendurable on account of this pest the "plaga de mosquitos," as the Spaniards term it while upon other streams in the very same latitude musquitoes are unknown. These streams are what are termed "rios negros," or black-water rivers a peculiar class of rivers, to which many tributaries of the Amazon and Orinoco belong.
He perceived the uselessness of describing to her the dangers that she would run there, especially at the season that was beginning. Still, for a moment he pondered the trouble he would have in taking his broken body on that pilgrimage. "And this time it will get me: just one or two little chills," he reflected, thinking of black-water fever.
It had been a massacre a headlong flight amid the Mambava forests, through which Parr, himself badly wounded, and half the time unconscious, had been dragged by five Mohammedan survivors. They had gained an outpost fort where, ever since, Parr had lain hovering between life and death, not only crippled by his wounds, but also stricken with the black-water fever.
Then, with a sickening leap of her heart, she realized that this was Parr, who had been Lawrence Teck's valet. He had thought she would want to receive from him, promptly on his return, a first-hand report on that African tragedy. "But where have you been all this time?" He had been a long while recovering from the wound that had crippled him, and from the black-water fever.
Sheldon sent a house-boy for his thermometer and glanced questioningly at the captain. "Black-water fever," the captain said. "He's been like this for six days, unconscious. And we've got dysentery on board. What's the matter with you?" "I'm burying four a day," Sheldon answered, as he bent over from the steamer-chair and inserted the thermometer under his partner's tongue.
The platitudes of age may often be for youth divine revelations, and there is nothing so stimulating as the unaided apprehension of a great commonplace of existence. The awe with which Mark was filled that night was too vast to evaporate in sentiment, and when two days after this there came news from Africa that his father had died of black-water fever that awe was crystallized indeed.
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