“I don’t mind the heat but will those damn doves never stop!,” I asked my wife, paraphrasing poor Caruthers, the prototypical English administrator in the heart of darkest Africa, driven demented not by the doves but by the incessant drums.

The family of a teacher who died after drinking a local spirit on an island off Bali wants the Department of Foreign Affairs to warn people of the risk of methanol poisoning in Indonesia.