 Insects are the curse of tropical climates. The bete rouge lays the foundation of a tremendous ulcer. In a moment you are covered with ticks. Chigoes bury themselves in your flesh, and hatch a large colony of young Chigoes in a few hours. They will not...  St. Lucia: Historical, Statistical, and Descriptive - Page 156by Henry Hegart Breen - 1844 - 423 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Naval art and science - 1857 - 756 pages
...Guiana, are equally applicable to St. Lucia in the present day. The author says, — " The bete rouge lays the foundation of a tremendous ulcer ; in a moment you are covered with ticks ; flies get into your mouth, into your eyes, and nose, you eat flies, drink flies, and breathe flies ; lizards,... | |
 | James Bell - Geography - 1832 - 750 pages
...and are too lively to be here omitted. " Insects are the curse of tropical climates. The bêle rouge lays the foundation of a tremendous ulcer. In a moment you are covered with ticks. Chigoes bury themselves in your flesh, and hatch a large colony of young chigoes in a few hours. They... | |
 | John Timbs - 1840 - 430 pages
...are.— The Doctor. Tropical Delights.— Insects are the curse of tropical climates. The hete rouge lays the foundation of a tremendous ulcer. In a moment you are covered with ticks. Chigoes bury themselves in your flesh, and hatch a large colony of young chigoes in a few hours. They... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1844 - 548 pages
...estate." " Insects," he adds, a few sentences after, " are the curse of tropical climates. The bête rouge lays the foundation of a tremendous ulcer. In a moment you are covered with ticks. Chigoes bury themselves in your flesh, and hatch a large colony of young chigoes in a few hours. They... | |
 | Sydney Smith - English literature - 1844 - 412 pages
...faint idea whom and what he was biting. Insects ;ire the curse of tropical climates. The bete rouge lays the foundation of a tremendous ulcer. In a moment you are covered with licks. Chigoes bury themselves in your flesh, and hatch a colony of young chigoes in a few hours. They... | |
 | Sydney Smith - English literature - 1844 - 348 pages
...live togeti.ir, but every chigoe gets up a separate ulcer, and Las his own private portion of pus. Flies get entry into your mouth, into your eyes, into your nose ; you «at flics, drink aies, and breathe aies. Lizards, cockroaches, and snakes, get into the bed ; ants... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1846 - 368 pages
...live togethi-r, but every chigoe sets up a separate ulcer, and has his own private portion of pus. Flies get entry into your mouth, into your eyes, into your nose ; you eat nice, drink flies, and breathe flies. Lizards, cockroaches, and snakes, get into the bed ; ants cat... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - 1846 - 764 pages
...South America. ' Insect?,' says the witty writer, < are the curse of tropical climates. The bete rouge lays the foundation of a tremendous ulcer. In a moment you are covered with licRs. Chigoes bury themselves in your flesh, and hatch a colony ol' young chigoes in a few hours.... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1847 - 524 pages
...faint idea whom and what he was biting. Insects are the curse of tropical climates. The bete rouge lays the foundation of a tremendous ulcer. In a moment you are covered with ticks. Chigoes bury themselves in your flesh, and hatch a large colony of young Chigoes in a few hours. They... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1848 - 520 pages
...faint idea whom and what he was biting. Insects are the curse of tropical climates. The bete rouge lays the foundation of a tremendous ulcer. In a moment you are covered with ticks. Chigoes bury themselves in your flesh, and hatch a large colony of young chigoes in a few hours. They... | |
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