An Entomological Episode of the East African Campaign
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During the year 1915, I was stationed at a large post in East Africa in the crater-like depression of an isolated volcanic mountain. This mountain had been held for some months by the Germans, and when we occupied it, we found ourselves obliged for reasons of defence to place part of our troops upon the site of the old German camp. We had not been there for many days before we found that the site was heavily infected with jigger fleas, left doubtless by the African troops and porters of the German force. Our men, mainly European and Indian troops who had little or no previous experience of the jigger, rapidly became infected to an alarming extent, and in a few weeks' time nearly half
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دوره 61 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2017