At the same time, it is just in the hot “stuffy weather of a break in the rains,” when it is always on the cards that it may rain before morning, that such cases occur, and apart from the traditional danger of sleeping outside a room during the rains, one is naturally loth to risk a ducking. Given, however, adequate shelter from rain, there is no danger whatever from sleeping in the verandah at such times of the year, always provided, of course, that protection against infected mosquitoes is assured by a carefully tucked-in mosquito net, and when the atmospheric conditions are such as to involve risk of heat stroke, I personally prefer to sleep on the roof, under the shelter of the top of a tent, or of a special thatch shelter consisting of a roof without sides, or at most with one lateral wall to windward, when there is a probability of a driving rain falling during the night. As a matter of fact, under atmospheric conditions of this sort, one is unlikely to take much harm even if one does get damp, and the admittedly enhanced danger of malaria can be entirely obviated by means of mosquito curtains. Till lately we heard nothing of the danger of anything worse than itching being connected with mosquito bites, and naturally those who were callous enough to popular notions of safety to sleep outside the house in the rains were about the last folks in the world to trouble themselves about the tickle of a mosquito bite, and became “moral examples” by contracting fever accordingly. During periods of great heat, especially if combined with dampness of the air, under which conditions heat stroke is likely to occur, severe muscular exertion should be avoided as far as possible; a light, mainly vegetable, diet adopted, and the amount of stimulants taken should be very limited, though it is a great mistake to limit fluids of other descriptions, and tea taken very hot is often useful and refreshing. Care should also be taken not to allow oneself to become constipated, and speaking generally it should be recognised that under the extreme climatic conditions that bring on heat stroke, the European must live cautiously if he wishes to come out of the ordeal unharmed.