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They crowd you-- infest you--swarm about you, and sweat and smell offensively, and look sneaking and mean, and obsequious.

Should he not reach the English or French territories, what was to become of him in the midst of the barbarous tribes that infest the coasts of Guinea?

During the year that followed, Clayton was several times attacked by the great apes which now seemed to continually infest the vicinity of the cabin; but as he never again ventured outside without both rifle and revolvers he had little fear of the huge beasts.

Injun Joe infested all his dreams, and always with doom in his eye.

If the whole land was infested by these and similar horrid monsters, life would be impossible upon it, and we decided that we would only search long enough to find and take aboard fresh water and such meat and fruits as might be safely procurable and then retrace our way beneath the cliffs to the open sea.

This was done and the leeches, both present and absent, were ordered to leave the places that they had infested within three days on pain of incurring "the malediction of God." In the voluminous records of this

Our way lay across high mountains infested with frightful serpents, but we had the good luck to escape them and came at last to the seashore.

All this coast is much infested with ravenous beasts, monkeys, and serpents, of which last here are some seven feet in length, and thicker than an ordinary man; in the head of this serpent is found a stone about the bigness of an egg, resembling bezoar, and of great efficacy, as it is said, against all kinds of poison.

Between Omaha and the Pacific the railway crosses a territory which is still infested by Indians and wild beasts, and a large tract which the Mormons, after they were driven from Illinois in 1845, began to colonise.

In their eagerness to mislead them they betrayed themselves into danger, and got into a region infested with the Blackfeet.

They painted in strong colors, to the poor Canadian voyageurs, the risk they would run of perishing with hunger and thirst; of being cut off by war-parties of the Sioux who scoured the plains; of having their horses stolen by the Upsarokas or Crows, who infested the skirts of the Rocky Mountains; or of being butchered by the Blackfeet, who lurked among the defiles.

A beard and mustache covered the lower part of his face, and a tangle of hair, infested with lice, curled round his head like a cap.