quartana

Updated: May 11, 2025

Here an awning had been spread; the goat destined for our dinner I have long since conquered all dislike, dear L., to seeing dinner perambulating had been boiled and disposed in hunches upon small mountains of rice, and jars of sweet water stood in the air to cool. After feeding, regardless of Quartana and her weird sisterhood, we all lay down for siesta in the light sea-breeze.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - First Footsteps in East Africa

Hence some identify it with Pliny's 'flumen Bambotum crocodilis et hippopotamis refertum. Its northern bank is the low Bullom shore, a long flat line of mud and mangrove, on which all the fevers, Tertiana, Quartana, and Co., hold their court.

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