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Back of the trenches often lay great heaps of refuse like the kitchen middens of primeval man. Attempts at coziness had achieved a little success in some places, but nearly everywhere the abode of burrowing soldiers was raw, rank and fetid. Heavy and hideous odors arose from the four hundred miles of unwashed armies. Men lived amid disease, dirt and death.
The nearer we approached, the more Scotch everything appeared; in some cases I even saw my dear native 'middens afore the door: the aspect of the houses and looks of the old women especially, with their stoups and country caps so very like mutches striped petticoats and short-gowns, brought northern climes before me vividly; and the children stared and shouted like true Scots callants.
A lookout is to be constantly kept through the glass by one or another taking it in turns, to look out, not alone for enemies, but for friends for that ship which they still hope may come along the Beagle Channel. These shell-heaps, or "kitchen middens," are a feature of Fuegian scenery.
And farther on, when villages began to appear, strongly-walled as the custom is, to ward off the attacks of beasts, the logs which aforetime had barred the gateway lay strewn in a sprouting undergrowth, and naught but the kitchen middens remained to prove that once they had sheltered human tenants.
Gaol-fever was due to dirt; its infecting germs were distributed by loathsome insects. At first the larger and more obvious hurtful creatures snakes, rats, mice, scorpions, blow-flies were eliminated by some elementary attempts at removal of rubbish and kitchen middens.
His lordship was a man of a genteel spirit, and very fond of his horses, which were the most beautiful creatures of their kind that had been seen in all the country side. Coming, as I was noting, to see his new lands, he was obliged to pass through the clachan one day, when all the middens were gathered out, reeking and sappy, in the middle of the causey.
We hoped to reach our halting place, which was called Vrbitza, before dark; but it was further away than our informant had said. Once more we found ourselves floundering about in the mud of the village path after dusk. We reached houses which we could not see; walked over slippery poles set over heaven knows what middens.
The Rue de Langlade and the adjacent streets are a blot on the Palais Royal and the Rue de Rivoli. This portion of one of the handsomest quarters of Paris will long retain the stain of foulness left by the hillocks formed of the middens of old Paris, on which mills formerly stood.
Now and then one or another of the blind keepers of the camp will come across to where you sit gossiping, tapping her way among the kitchen middens, guided by your voice that carries far in the clearness and stillness of mesa afternoons. But suppose you find Seyavi retired into the privacy of her blanket, you will get nothing for that day. There is no other privacy possible in a campoodie.
The astute forger, knowing that figurines were found in Japanese kitchen middens, knowing it before Y. Koganei published the fact in 1903, thought the Dumbuck kitchen midden an appropriate place for a figurine. Dr. Dr. Schliemann thought that the many figurines of clay, in Troy, were meant for Hera and Athene.
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