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Updated: June 19, 2025
I was already speckled by the bites of a thousand swamp-flies and mosquitoes, that all night long had preyed upon me. There was not a cloud in the heavens to shade me; and the sunbeams smote the surface of the dead bayou with a double intensity. "Towards evening, I began to hunger; no wonder at that: I had not eaten since leaving the village settlement.
If we landed, and sought any shade, the mosquitos would drive us at once to the glare of the sun. Besides this plague, sand-flies, gnats, swamp-flies, ants, and other insects abounded. The little black ant is especially bold and warlike.
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