died of blackwater fever in 1928. Actor Don Adams, best known as Maxwell Smart from the popular sitcom Get Smart and as the title character in Inspector Gadget, contracted blackwater fever after being shot in combat at Guadalcanal during World War II. Adams was evacuated from his United States Marine Corps unit to a hospital in New Zealand where he ultimately made a full recovery. Humanitarian and MMA fighter Justin Wren contracted malaria, which devolved into blackwater fever, while drilling water-wells for Congo Pygmies in 2013. The affliction nearly claimed Wren's life. He was misdiagnosed four times and required airlift to Uganda, where he narrowly recovered from severe symptoms. Aeneas, Jeannie Gunn's husband, is described as having died from Blackwater Fever or Malarial Dysentry at Elsey Station in the Northern Territory in 1903. She later authored the classic account We of the Never Never. Bernard Deacon Peter Cameron Scott, a Scottish-American missionary and founder of Africa Inland Mission, died from the disease in December 1896. Henry Stricker, South African cricketer Cultural references Out of Africa, a 1985 film based on the experiences of author Isak Dinesen The Power of One, a 1992 film based on the book of the same name The Bridge on the River Kwai, a 1957 film about prisoners of war in a jungle environment At Play in the Fields of the Lord, a 1965 novel by Peter Matthiessen West with the Night (1942), African memoir by aviator Beryl Markham Burmese Days, a 1934 novel by George Orwell; several associates of Flory are noted to have died of blackwater fever in chapter 5 Showdown, a 1946 novel by Errol Flynn The Heart of the Matter, a 1948 novel by Graham Greene Green Hills of Africa, a 1935 novel by Ernest Hemingway The Book of Secrets, a 1994 novel by M. G. Vassanji The Blackwater Fever, a blues band out of Australia An Ice-Cream War, a 1982 novel by William Boyd set during the First World War in German East Africa Liberia as I Know It, a 1929 memoir by medical missionary Clinton Caldwell Boone Showa: A History of Japan, a 2014 four-part autobiographical graphic novel of the Showa period in Japanese history Shigeru Mizuki Stand on Zanzibar, a 1968 science-fiction novel by John Brunner quotes a line from the sea chanty "The Bight of Benin": "The bight of Benin, the bight of Benin! Blackwater fever and pounds