Question

In “The Lagoon” by Joseph Conrad, what does the white man learn is wrong with Diamelen when he arrives at Arsat’s cabin? She is deathly ill with fever. She has fallen and has hit her head. She has cut her hand and is bleeding. She is about to give birth.

Answer 1

What the white man learns is wrong with Diamelen when he arrives at Arsat's cabin is that she is deathly ill with fever.
The white man came to Arsat's cabin to visit him, because they met and became friends a long time ago. Upon his arrival, Arsat asks him whether he brought any medicine by chance, because his wife is sick and dying because of the high fever.