Jane hot boxed the tent earlier.

In picaresques, the protagonist usually acts as narrator to provide coherence and unity to the genre's inherent structural weakness—its episodic plot.

[…] There may be in the cup A spider steep’d, and one may drink, depart, And yet partake no venom, for his knowledge Is not infected...

He was lying on a bamboo bed in the traditional doctor's hut at the jungliest edge of the village.