White With Fright

There's an anecdote in Now the Hell Will Start regarding an Assamese tea planter whose arm was chomped off by a Bengal tiger. According to the primary source—a diary kept by an American officer—the trauma of the incident caused the poor planter's hair to turn white virtually overnight. (The specific time span isn't mentioned, but the tone of the entry makes it sound like the whitening happened right quick.)

At least one critic of the book has noted that the hair-whitening aspect of the tale sound