Digitale Ausgabe

Download
TEI-XML (Ansicht)
Text (Ansicht)
Text normalisiert (Ansicht)
Ansicht
Textgröße
Originalzeilenfall ein/aus
Zeichen original/normiert
Zitierempfehlung

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-06-neu> [abgerufen am 29.03.2024].

URL und Versionierung
Permalink:
https://humboldt.unibe.ch/text/1821-Personal_Narrative_of-06-neu
Die Versionsgeschichte zu diesem Text finden Sie auf github.
Titel Moschettoes (Musquetoes) of S. America
Jahr 1821
Ort Salisbury, North Carolina
Nachweis
in: Western Carolinian 2:64 (28. August 1821), [o. S.].
Sprache Englisch
Typografischer Befund Antiqua; Spaltensatz; Auszeichnung: Kursivierung.
Identifikation
Textnummer Druckausgabe: IV.15
Dateiname: 1821-Personal_Narrative_of-06-neu
Statistiken
Seitenanzahl: 1
Spaltenanzahl: 1
Zeichenanzahl: 2561

Weitere Fassungen
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)
Moschettoes (Musquetoes) of S. America (Washington, District of Columbia, 1821, Englisch)
Savages on the Oronoko (Boston, Massachusetts, 1821, Englisch)
Moschettoes (Musquetoes) of South America (Chillicothe, Ohio, 1821, Englisch)
Moschettoes (Musquetoes) of S. America (Salisbury, North Carolina, 1821, Englisch)
From Humbolt’s Narrative of a Tour on the Oronoko (Amherst, New Hampshire, 1821, Englisch)
Humboldt’s and Bonpland’s Travels (Boston, Massachusetts, 1821, Englisch)
Savages on the Oronoko (Concord, New Hampshire, 1821, Englisch)
Tiger familiarity with infants (Leeds, 1821, Englisch)
Savages on the Oronoko (Danville, Vermont, 1821, Englisch)
Savages on the Oronoko (Woodstock, Vermont, 1821, Englisch)
Savage prejudices (Liverpool, 1821, Englisch)
Musquitos (London, 1821, Englisch)
Opisanie historyczne podróźy Alexandra Humboldta i Emego Bompland do krain międzyzwrótnikowych nowego świata; tomu II, część 2, z cztérma rycinami. Paris chez Maze Libr. 1821 (Vilnius, 1822, Polnisch)
Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der Mosquitos (Erfurt; Weimar; Leipzig, 1822, Deutsch)
Innocence (London, 1822, Englisch)
|4|

MOSCHETTOES (MUSQUETOES) OF S.AMERICA.From Humboldt’s Personal Narrative.

“Persons who have not navigatedthe great rivers of equinoctial Ameri-ca, for instance the Oronoko and theRio Magdalena, can scarcely conceivehow, without interruption, at every in-stant of life, you may be tormented byinsects flying in the air, and how themultitude of these little animals mayrender vast regions wholly uninhabita-ble. However accustomed you maybe to endure pain without complaint;however lively an interest you maytake in the objects of your researches,it is impossible not to be constantly|Spaltenumbruch|disturbed by the moschettoes, zancu-does, jejens, and tempraneroes, thatcover the face and hands, pierce theclothes with the long sucker, in theform of a needle, and, getting into themouth and nostrils, set you coughingand sneezing whenever you attempt tospeak in the open air. In the missionsof the Oronoko, in the villages placedon the banks of the river, surroundedby immense forests, the plaga de lasmoscas, the plague of the flies, affordsan inexhaustible subject of conversa-tion. When two persons meet in themorning, the first questions they ad-dress to each other are, ‘How did youfind the zancudoes during the night?How are we to-day for the moschet-toes?’ These questions remind us ofa Chinese form of politeness, whichindicates the ancient state of the coun-try where it took birth. Salutationswere made heretofore in the celestialempire, in the following words, vou-tou-hou. ‘Have you been incommoded inthe night by the serpents?’ We shallsoon see that on the banks of the Tua-mini, in the river Magdalena, and stillmore at Choco, the country of gold andplatina, the Chinese compliment on theserpents might be added to that ofmoschettoes. “At Mandavaca we found an oldMissionary, who told us, with an airof sadness, that he had spent his twen-ty years of moschettoes in America.He desired us to look well at his legs,that we might he able to tell one day‘poor alla (beyond sea) what the poormonks suffer in the forests of Cassi-quiare.’ Every sting leaving a smalldarkish brown point, his legs were sospeckled that it was difficult to recog-nise the whiteness of his skin throughthe spots of coagulated blood. If theinsects of the simulium genus aboundin the Cassiquiare, which has whitewaters, the culices, or zancudoes, areso much the more rare; you scarcelyfind any there, while on the rivers of black waters, in the Atabapo and theRio Negro, there are generally some zancudoes and no moschettoes.