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Yet here, in verity, are the ten plagues of Egypt, through which a traveller in these regions must run the gauntlet: 1. Plague of boas. | 7. Suffocation from the 2. Red ants, or "hot-water." | density of the jungle. 3 Scorpions. | 8. Stench. 4. Thorns and spear cacti. | 9. Thorns in the road. 5. Numerous impediments. | 10. Miasma. 6 Black mud knee-deep. | May 1st. Kingaru Hera.
It was hateful to her strong and frank nature. It was like a miasma that suffocated her soul. "Oh, Boris," she exclaimed bluntly, "why should he not come at night?" "Is such a thing usual?" "But he was visiting the tents over there of the nomads, and he had heard of our arrival. He knew it was informal, but, as he said, in the desert one forgets formalities." "And and did he ask for anything?"
I will not impugn the intelligence of this jury by a review of the evidence in so plain a case. But knowing the deadening miasma of race prejudice that hangs over, envelops and stifles us so often, I shall dwell briefly upon the nature of the crime committed by the defendant.
Three sons and one daughter have been born to this worthy couple. Medical. In the early records of Cleveland, as in those of most western towns, the story of sickness and death fills a large part. Fever and ague, brought on by exposure, privations, and by the miasma from swamp, river and uncleared lands, disabled a large number of the early settlers, and hurried some to untimely graves.
"No," replied Robert, looking hard at him "I thought you would ask that. It was a smell of something putrid something rotten, rotten with the rottenness of ages." "Did you trace where it came from?" "I opened all the windows, and that seemed to disperse it for a time. Then, just as I was going out, it returned; it seemed to envelop me like a filthy miasma.
Parker to an eminence overlooking the river that bounded his farm on the western side, and spoke to him thus: "My friend, do you see that river, with more than half of its muddy bed exposed to the hot sun? Your farm lies upon its eastern side, and the poisonous miasma that arises from its surface and banks is steadily blown upon you by the south-westerly and westerly winds of summer.
As this view of vale and mountain had once before lifted his judgment above the miasma of a cruel superstition, so it raised him now above creeping fears and filled him with confidence in something more stable than magistrates or mobs. Love, like the sunlight, shone aslant the dark places of the prospect and filled them with warmth.
'Ah, said the mate, 'there is the scene of many a horror, there the nigger was torn limb from limb by the bloodhounds, there the runaway slave chose to endure starvation and death amid deadly snakes and miasma rather than comfort in bondage; there I myself saw crowds of black men swinging from limb to limb like monkeys over reeking scums to their fever-haunted dens to escape the lash.
"I do, most assuredly," answered Santoris "I see it as distinctly as I see yourself in the midst of it. But there is no actual light in it, it is mere grey mist, a mist of miasma." "Thank you!" and Harland laughed harshly "You are complimentary!" "Is it a time for compliments?" asked Santoris, with sudden sternness "Harland, would you have me tell you ALL?" Harland's face grew livid.
The historic atmosphere was there, certainly; but the historic atmosphere, scientifically considered, was no better than a villainous miasma. Winterbourne walked to the middle of the arena, to take a more general glance, intending thereafter to make a hasty retreat. The great cross in the center was covered with shadow; it was only as he drew near it that he made it out distinctly.
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