Nansei Shoto Ryuku Islands-Loochoo Islands: A Pocket Guide Page: 23
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lets per canteen, shake and let it stand for 30
minutes before drinking).
Be just as careful about local food. The
Okinawas use "night soil" as fertilizer for
their gardens. Night soil is the polite Orien--
tal way of describing human excrement. It often
carries disease germs, and transmits them to the
fruit and vegetables. So steer clear of local
eating-places unless they've been passed by army
inspectors.
To stay healthy in Nansei Shoto, you want
to keep clean and careful. Your mosquito bar and
GI insect repellant are as important to you as
your rifle, because there's much nalaria here,
Look out for mites in the tall grasses of the
river valleys, especially during flood seasons;
these mites are like chiggers back home, but a
lot tougher. They carry a kind of typhus which
the Japanese call tsutsugamushi - "dangerous bug
fever." Make sure your clothes are tick-tight
and smeared with insect repellant.
IT AIN'T A BIG WOIM
You're going to hear a lot about the snakes
on these islands,and some of the stories will be
pretty wild. Don't be like the Brooklyn joker at
Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, who returned to the com-
pany area with a full - grown set of rattlesnake
rattlers, and explained that he "got 'em off of23
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