misererable

Updated: July 15, 2025

A little farther on, the bodies of an old man and two small children were putrefying in the sun, while beside them lay a misererable, wasted, dying negro, vainly endeavouring to keep at a distance with a palm branch a number of the same obscene birds that were already devouring the carcass of one of the infants; before two hours, the faithful servant, and those he attempted to defend, were equally the prey of the disgusting gallinaso.

Michael Scott - Tom Cringle's Log