248 MUSQUITOES AND SAND-FLIES. Hope-lifted, doubt-depressed Tried, troubled, tempted, Sustained, as thou art." The closing shades of night brought off from the adjacent jungle such clouds of musquitoes and sandflies, that we, at any rate, were soon recalled from dreams of spirits and "Untoos," to the vile realities of mother earth. The crew lighted pans of cocoanut husks, and set them along the windward side of the vessel, so that we were enveloped in a pungent smoke which threatened to bring on ophthalmia; but still I was a thin-skinned treat the wretches had not perhaps ever before partaken of: they pierced through my light cotton garments, and I felt morally certain Jadee would only discover the husk of a midshipman by the morning, as all that was succulent was fast being abstracted. I had promised to wait until the morrow, for the purpose of shooting some peacocks which had been seen, but my resolution failed me, and I determined to start at once if the night-breeze, which was fast freshening, did not mend matters. My attention was, however, soon attracted to a more important object. The land-breeze, as usual, came |