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In Africa

CHAPTER IV
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Doctor Ward told us of some that he had put in a box, where they lived four years without food or water.

He also told us of one that was sent to the British museum, put on a card with a pin through it, and lived over two years in this condition.

It is assumed, however, that it sustained fatal injuries, because after a two years' fight against its wound it finally succumbed.
We were told to avoid old camping grounds while on _safari_, because these spots were usually much infested with ticks waiting for new camping parties.

Wild game is always covered with ticks and carries them all over the land.

As you walk through the grass in the game country the ticks cling to your clothes and immediately seek for an opening where they may establish closer relations with you.


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