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Updated: June 16, 2025
The march was extremely trying, the nights at this season being very wet, and the hours before midday a torment of damp heat. Several men collapsed as they marched, suffering from a kind of heat-stroke.
Thereafter a pilgrimage of women, as from Kheiban, moved southwards across plain and mountain, and every day its numbers were diminished, for the youthful and the good-looking were carried off by brigands. At night they were halted outside villages, and the gendarmes and villagers took what they chose. Many died from hunger and heat-stroke: others were left by the wayside.
His puffy eyes turned furtively toward Rudolph. "May be bad form, Hackh, but we all wish you luck, I fancy." Then, in a burst of candor, "Wish that unspeakable ass felt as seedy as I do heat-stroke drop dead that sort of thing." Still grumbling treason, this strange second rejoined his principal.
A few days later came the first rain-storm. After a night's downpour the air was radiantly clear, and it was joy to ride off on the rounds, no longer like Zeus, enveloped in a cloud. It was a relief to see the heat-stroke camps broken up. During the summer months our ranks were fearfully thinned through the sun.
It is met with in the course of severe illnesses, especially such as are associated with the loss of large quantities of fluid from the body for example, by severe diarrhœa, notably in Asiatic cholera; by persistent vomiting; or by profuse sweating, as in some cases of heat-stroke. Severe degrees of collapse follow sudden and profuse loss of blood.
Then think what it would mean to find yourself placed suddenly under the whirling vanes of a big fan, lying with your mouth wide open, taking great gulps of the cool rushing air. When we moved up river, three months later, it was rumoured the fans were on their way from India. The maladies that were commonest were malaria, diarrhoea, dysentery, jaundice and heat-stroke.
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