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Alexander von Humboldt: „Moschettoes (Musquetoes) of S. America“, in: ders., Sämtliche Schriften digital, herausgegeben von Oliver Lubrich und Thomas Nehrlich, Universität Bern 2021. URL: <https://humboldt.unibe.ch/text/1821-Personal_Narrative_of-03-neu> [abgerufen am 28.03.2024].

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Titel Moschettoes (Musquetoes) of S. America
Jahr 1821
Ort Washington, District of Columbia
Nachweis
in: Daily National Intelligencer 2671 (4. August 1821), [o. S.].
Sprache Englisch
Typografischer Befund Antiqua; Spaltensatz; Auszeichnung: Kursivierung.
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Textnummer Druckausgabe: IV.15
Dateiname: 1821-Personal_Narrative_of-03-neu
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Seitenanzahl: 1
Zeichenanzahl: 2559

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Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent, during the years 1799–1804. By Alexander de Humboldt, and Aimé Bonpland, &c. &c. London, 1821, 8vo. 2 Vols. pp. 864 (London, 1821, Englisch)
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent, during the years 1799–1804. By Alexander de Humboldt, and Aimé Bonpland, &c. &c. London, 1821, 8vo. 2 Vols. pp. 864 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1821, Englisch)
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MOSCHETTOES (MUSQUETOES) OF S. AMERICA.


From Humboldt’s Personal Narrative.

“Persons who have not navigated the greatrivers of equinoctial America, for instance theOronoko and the Rio Magdalena, can scarcelyconceive how, without interruption, at every in-stant of life, you may be tormented by insects fly-ing in the air, and how the multitude of these lit-tle animals may render vast regions wholly unin-habitable. However accustomed you may be toendure pain without complaint; however livelyan interest you may take in the objects of yourresearches, it is impossible not to be constantlydisturbed by the moschettoes, zancudoes, jejens, and tempraneroes, that cover the face and hands,pierce the clothes with the long sucker, in theform of a needle, and, getting into the mouth andnostrils, set you coughing and sneezing wheneveryou attempt to speak in the open air. In the mis-sions of the Oronoko, in the villages placed on thebanks of the river, surrounded by immense for-ests, the plaga de las moscas, the plague of theflies, affords an inexhaustible subject of conver-sation. When two persons meet in the morning,the first questions they address to each other are,‘How did you find the zancudoes during thenight? How are we to-day for the moschettoes?’These questions remind us of a Chinese form ofpoliteness, which indicates the ancient state ofthe country where it took birth. Salutations weremade heretofore in the celestial empire, in thefollowing words, vou-tou-hou. ‘Have you beenincommoded in the night by the serpents?’ Weshall soon see that on the banks of the Tuamini,in the river Magdalena, and still more at Choco,the country of gold and platina, the Chinesecompliment on the serpents might be added tothat of the meschettoes.” “At Mandavaca we found an old Missionary,who told us, with an air of sadness, that he hadspent his twenty years of moschettoes in America.He desired us to look well at his legs, that wemight be able to tell one day ‘poor alla (beyondsea) what the poor monks suffer in the forests ofCassiquiare.’ Every sting leaving a small dark-ish brown point, his legs were so speckled that itwas difficult to recognise the whiteness of hisskin through the spots of coagulated blood. Ifthe insects of the simulium genus abound in theCassiquiare, which has white waters, the culices,or zancudoes, are so much the more rare; youscarcely find any there, while on the rivers of black waters, in the Atabapo and the Rio Negro,there are generally some zancudoes and no mos-chettoes.”