immundicies

Updated: July 25, 2026

It seems to exhaust all the positive electricity of the nervous system, and it makes the patient feel utterly miserable. It also fills the air with noxious vapours during the short bursts of sunshine perpendicularly rained down, and breeds a hateful brood of what the Portuguese call immundicies a foul 'insect-youth. Only the oldest residents prefer the wet to the dry months.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - To the Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I

The mornings and evenings in these plantation-villages would be delightful were it not for what the Brazilians call immundicies. Sandflies always swarm in places where underwood and tall grasses exclude the draughts, and the only remedy is clearing the land. Thus at St.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1