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Alexander von Humboldt: „Moschettoes (Musquetoes) of South 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-05-neu> [abgerufen am 25.04.2024].
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| Titel | Moschettoes (Musquetoes) of South America | ||||
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| Jahr | 1821 | ||||
| Ort | Chillicothe, Ohio | ||||
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Nachweis in: The Weekly Recorder 7:48/360 (15. August 1821), S. 381–382.
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| Sprache | Englisch | ||||
| Typografischer Befund | Antiqua; Spaltensatz; Auszeichnung: Kursivierung. | ||||
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“Persons who have not navigated the great ri-vers of
equinoctial America, for instance the Oron-oko and the Rio
Magdalena, can scarcely conceivehow, without interruption, at
every instant of life,you may be tormented by insects flying in
the air,and how the multitude of these little animals mayrender vast regions wholly uninhabitable. How-ever accustomed you may be to endure pain with-out complaint;
however lively an interest youmay take in the objects of your
researches, it isimpossible not to be constantly disturbed by
themoschettoes, zancudoes, jejens,
and tempraneroes,
|382|that cover the face and hands,
pierce the clotheswith the long sucker, in the form of a
needle, andgetting into the mouth and nostrils, set you
cough-ing and sneezing whenever you attempt to speakin the open air. In the missions of the Oronoko,in the villages placed on the banks of the river,surrounded
by immense forests, plaga de las moscas,
the plague of the flies, affords an inexhaustiblesubject of conversation. When two persons meetin the morning, the first questions they address toeach
other, are ‘How did you find the zancudoesduring the
night? How are we to-day for the mos-chettoes?’ These
questions remind us of a Chineseform of politeness, which
indicates the ancientstate of the country where it took birth.
Saluta-tions were made heretofore in the celestial empire,
in the following words, vou-ton-hou.
‘Have youbeen incommoded in the night by the
serpents?’We shall soon see that on the banks of the
Tua-mini, in the river Magdalena, and still more atChoco, the country of gold and platina, the Chinesecompliment on the serpents might be added to thatof the moschettoes.”
“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 we mightbe able to tell one day ‘poor alla (beyond sea)what the poor monks suffer in the forests of Cassi-quiare.’ Every sting leaving a small darkishbrown point, his legs were so speckled that it wasdifficult to recognise the whiteness of his skinthrough the spots of coagulated blood. If the in-sects of the simulium genus abound in the Cassiqui-are, which has white waters, the culices, or zancu-does, are so much the more rare; you scarcely findany there, while on the rivers of black waters, inthe Atabapo and the Rio Negro, there are gener-ally some zancudoes and no moschettoes.”
MOSCHETTOES (MUSQUETOES) OF SOUTHAMERICA. From Humboldt’s Personal Narrative.