Jane hot boxed the tent earlier.

[…] 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.

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