After overcoming the natural difficulties of a malarious climate and precipitous hills, the sepoys were on several occasions fairly worsted by the unexpected bravery of the little Gurkhas, whose heavy knives or kukris dealt terrible execution.
An experiment made on the railway staff at Bovino, a highly malarious district on the Adriatic, gave a striking result.
Eight Red Cross ambulances, each with a doctor and attendant, were sent into the most malarious parts of the Campagna in 1900.
Except in the malarious coast zone, the climate is temperate, bracing and exceptionally healthy.
If this factor could be discovered it might be applied to the suppression of the disease in malarious localities.
In the highlands, where some fertile upland tracts produce corn, dates and other fruits, the climate is genial, but elsewhere it is extremely sultry, and on the low-lying coast lands malarious.
In the malarious islet of Asinara a pond of stagnant water was treated with petroleum and all windows were protected with gauze.
It is situated in a malarious, almost desert plain, 9 m.
It was first used in 1861, and since then has been employed during the hot weather as a health station for the British troops quartered in the hot and malarious vale of Peshawar.
Its present deserted and malarious state is probably owing to the silting up of the mouth of the Silarus, which has overflowed its bed, and converted the plain into unproductive marshy ground.
One of the most interesting was carried out in 1900 for the London School of Tropical Medicine by Dr Sambon and Dr Low, who went to reside in one of the most malarious districts in the Roman Campagna during the most dangerous season.
Races inhabiting malarious districts acquire a certain degree of resistance, no doubt through natural selection.
Somaliland and the Danakil lowlands have a hot, dry climate producing semi-desert conditions; the country in the lower basin of the Sobat is hot, swampy and malarious.
The 17th and 18th centuries, however, mark the worst period of depopulation in the more malarious parts of the Campagna, which seems to have begun in the 15th century, though we hear of malaria throughout the middle ages.
The climate in the district is therefore decidedly malarious, especially at the beginning and end of the rains.
The climate is damp, hot and malarious.
The climate of the low-lying coast lands is hot and malarious, but in the mountains it is cool and healthy.
The coast plains were in parts very fertile, especially the (now malarious) lower valley of the Crathis.
The dwellers in a malarious region like the Terai (at the foot of the Himalayas) are miserable,.
The eucalyptus is of quite modern introduction; it has been extensively planted in malarious districts.
The first of these was in 1899, and the subjects were the railwaymen employed on certain lines running through highly malarious districts.
The lowlands, rising but a few feet above the Caspian, and subject to frequent floodings, are extremely malarious, while the highlands, culminating with the magnificent Demavend (19,400 ft.), enjoy a tolerably healthy climate.
The malarious tarsi fringing the Himalayas, the uninhabitable swamps of the Gangetic delta, and the wide jungles of the central plateau are at present the chief home of the tiger.
The place is low-lying and malarious.
The town is situated in low, malarious ground, and was originally buried in jungle, but the Russians during their occupation of the place in 1723-34 cleared much timber and jungle and made some open spaces.