garapatadas

Updated: May 15, 2025

As they marched, the things called garapatadas, or wood-ticks, of which some six sorts flourish there, dropped down upon them in scores, to add their burning bites to the venom of the mosquitoes. In a moist atmosphere of at least 90°, with heavy arms to carry, that march must have been terrible.

John Masefield - On the Spanish Main: Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.