subequatorial

Updated: June 12, 2025

Except that he was dressed in tropical white and wore a huge pith helmet which set above his ill-favored features "like a mushroom over a toad," as Billy described it later, he might have just stepped out of his office on Wall Street, instead of from a wheezy launch on a steaming subequatorial river. "Good-evening, boys, a little late for dinner, I see, but I daresay you can cook me something.

John Henry Goldfrap - The Boy Aviators in Africa