fever-month

Updated: May 25, 2025

We were travelling in the very worst fever-month, March, when the summer vegetation is commencing to rot, and throw off its poisonous steam. What saved us here and afterwards, at Secocoeni's, was our temperate living, hard exercise, and plenty of quinine and tobacco-smoke. All the country through which we were passing is good game-veldt, but we saw very little and killed nothing.

Henry Rider Haggard - Cetywayo and his White Neighbours: Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal