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The mosquito had a sting, for Bradford gave a droll and pungent answer to the discontented colonists who had reported, in 1624, that "the people are much annoyed with musquetoes." We would wish such to keep at home till at least they be muskeeto proof.
The most readable account of the founding of Virginia is in Fiske's Old Virginia and Her Neighbours, I chaps. I-VI. John Smith's account of the settlement of Jamestown is in his True Relation, printed in Arber, Works of Captain John Smith. Birmingham, 1884. They are too delicate and unfitte to beginne new Plantations and Collonies, that cannot endure the biting of a muskeeto.
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