foot-clogging

Updated: June 16, 2025

Then, without thanking his guide, he turned to walk heavily through the foot-clogging sand in the direction indicated. It was a hundred and fifty miles up the line that he next emerged to notice, at Mendigos, that outpost set in the edge of the jungle, where the weary telegraphists sweat through the sunny monotony of the days and are shaken at night by the bitter agues that infest the land.

Perceval Gibbon - Those Who Smiled: And Eleven Other Stories