 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1821 - 524 Seiten
...no real advantages. I have indicated in another part of this work the curious fact, that the whites born in the torrid zone walk barefoot with impunity,...European recently landed is exposed to the attack of the niguas or chegoes (pulex penetrans). These animals, almost invisible to the eye, get under the... | |
 | 1821 - 312 Seiten
...appearance of a new species of culex denotes the approximity of a new stream flowing in. The whites born in the torrid zone walk barefoot with impunity...European, recently landed, is exposed to the attack of the niguas or chesoes (vulex penetrans). These animals almost invisible to the eye, get under the nails... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - 1822 - 618 Seiten
...b." 1 lumboldt observes, " that the whites born in the torrid zone walk barefoot with impunity in ihe same apartment where a European recently landed is...analysis could not distinguish, the cellular membrane and blood of a European from those of a creole whitec." You have already, perhaps, been satiated with... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1827 - 894 Seiten
...no real advantages. I have indicated in another part of this work the curious fact, that the whites born in the torrid zone walk barefoot with impunity,...European recently landed is exposed to the attack of the niguas or chegoes (pulex penet runs) . These animals, almost invisible to the eye, get under the... | |
 | 1821 - 370 Seiten
...appearance of a new species of culex denotes the approximity of a new stream flowing in. " The whites born in the torrid zone walk barefoot with impunity...European recently landed is exposed to the attack of the niguas or chegoes (pulex penetrans.) These animals, almost invisible to the eye, get under the... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - 1846 - 642 Seiten
...exposed part of the body. He had them Mice in his hand. ' Piso and Margr. Ind. 289. • P. 65. the whites born in the torrid zone walk barefoot with impunity in the same apartment were a European recently landed is exposed to the attack of this animal. The Nigna therefore distinguishes... | |
 | WILLIAM KIRBY, M.A. F.R.S. F.L.S. - 1858 - 676 Seiten
...a morning, by the most unfortunate Yarieo, an Indian woman." ' Humboldt observes, "that the whites born in the torrid zone walk barefoot with impunity...landed is exposed to the attack of this animal. The Nigna therefore distinguishes what the most delicate chemical analysis could not distinguish, the cellular... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1876 - 544 Seiten
...flourishes only on the native kind, on which it thrives prodigiously.11" Humboldt remarks17 that white men "born in the torrid zone walk barefoot with impunity...where a European, recently landed, is exposed to the attacks of the Pulcx penclrans." This insect, the too wellknown chigoe, must therefore be able to perceive... | |
 | James Johonnot - 1882 - 452 Seiten
...species deposits in the wound. 6. It is a curious fact that the whites born in the torrid zone may walk barefoot with impunity in the same apartment...European recently landed is exposed to the attack of the chcgoe. This animal, almost invisible to the eye, gets under the toe-nails, and there acquires... | |
 | James Johonnot - 1882 - 444 Seiten
...species deposits in the wound. 6. It is a curious fact that the whites born in the torrid zone may walk barefoot with impunity in the same apartment...European recently landed is exposed to the attack of the chegoe. This animal, almost invisible to the eye, gets under the toe-nails, and there acquires... | |
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I have indicated in another part of this work the curious fact, that the whites born in the torrid zone walk barefoot with impunity, in the same apartment where a European recently landed is exposed to the attack of the niguas or chegoes (pulex penetrans). 
