jiguas

Updated: May 4, 2025

This advice was followed by all hands, who provided themselves with a good store of boots and spare leather, thereby saving themselves from much annoyance from jiguas, or jiggers, and the venomous leeches of the swamps. The sickness had destroyed twenty-eight of the company. Three had died of wounds or in battle, and one had died from cold and exposure in the pinnace.

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