Interesting that so many refer to sucking their salt tablets, we were told to gulp them down with a glass of water. Oxenos's Mycota anti-ant powder was another revelation, in India and some Khormaksar accommodation with thatched roof it was advisable to stand each charpoy leg in a Players 50-ciggy tin filled with paraffin. One could thereby slumber ant-free, albeit in a haze of hydrocarbon fumes.