We asked, tentatively, if we could perhaps take a snake bite detector kit with us to Komodo. “ ’Course you can, ’course you can. Take as many as you like. Won’t do you a blind bit of good because they’re only for Australian snakes.” “So what do we do if we get bitten by something deadly, then?” I asked. He blinked at me as if I were stupid. “Well, what do you think you do?” he said. “You die of course. That’s what deadly means.”
