muskeet-trees

Updated: July 17, 2026

This was a gigantic captain, the upper part of whose body was clothed in an Indian hunting-coat, his head covered with what had once been a fine beaver hat, but of which the broad brim now flapped down over his ears, whilst his strong muscular legs were wrapped from knee to ankle in thick crimson flannel, a precaution against the thorns of the muskeet-trees not unfrequently adopted in the west.

Various - Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846