heat-exhaustion

Updated: July 2, 2025

Although the brutes have the smallest modicum of brains, they are very liable to attacks of illness from heat-exhaustion. That they are born in the tropics confers no immunity. Strange to say, on the march south from Assouan, of a thousand and odd only one animal succumbed to sunstroke, and that was a camel that had no sun-bonnet.

Bennet Burleigh - Khartoum Campaign, 1898: or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan