But, as I am devoured by the hounds, I would take comfort from the fact that most of my media colleagues would also become the new world's answer to Pedigree Chum.
The most immediate cause of those outbreaks was, then as now, obvious and was captured in the records of artist-to-be Paul Gauguin, who was then a digger with the French Canal Company: "At night I am devoured by mosquitoes" (Harrison 1978).