 | Mathematics - 1821 - 312 pages
...under the nails of the feet, and there acquire the size of a small pea by the quick increase of its eggs, which are placed in a bag under the belly of...a Creole white. It is not so with the moschettoes. In the day, even when labouring at the oar, the natives, in order to chase the insects, are continually... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1822 - 618 pages
...impunity in ihe same apartment where a European recently landed is exposed to the attack of this animal. The Nigua therefore distinguishes what the most delicate...membrane and blood of a European from those of a creole whitec." You have already, perhaps, been satiated with the account before given of our enemies of the... | |
 | American periodicals - 1821 - 370 pages
...therefore, distinguishes, what the most Humboldt and Bonpland's Travels. delicate chemical analysis cou!d not distinguish, the cellular membrane and blood of...a Creole white. It is not so with the moschettoes. "In the day, even when labouring at the oar, the natives, in order to chase the insects, are continually... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1846 - 644 pages
...the same apartment were a European recently landed is exposed to the attack of this animal. The Nigna therefore distinguishes what the most delicate chemical...membrane and blood of a European from those of a Creole white."1 You have already, perhaps, been satiated with the account before given of our enemies of the... | |
 | WILLIAM KIRBY, M.A. F.R.S. F.L.S. - 1858 - 674 pages
...same apartment where a European recently landed is exposed to the attack of this animal. The Nigna therefore distinguishes what the most delicate chemical...blood of a European from those of a Creole white." * You have already, perhaps, been satiated with the account before given of our enemies of the Acurus... | |
 | James Johonnot - Geography - 1882 - 448 pages
...the quick increase of its eggs, which are placed in a bag under the belly of the insect. The chegoe, therefore, distinguishes what the most delicate chemical...blood of a European from those of a Creole white. The mosquitoes, on the contrary, attack equally the natives and the Europeans ; but the effects of... | |
 | James Johonnot - Geography - 1882 - 452 pages
...eggs, which are placed in a bag under the belly of the insect. The chegoe, therefore, clistinguishes what the most delicate chemical analysis could not...blood of a European from those of a creole white. The mosquitoes, on the contrary, attack equally the natives and the Europeans ; but the effects of... | |
 | James Johonnot - Geography - 1882 - 444 pages
...chegoe, therefore, distinguishes what the most delicate chemical analysis could, not distinguish—the cellular membrane and blood of a European from those of a Creole white. The mosquitoes, on the contrary, attack equally the natives and the Europeans ; but the effects of... | |
 | Friedrich Wilhelm H. Alexander freiherr von Humboldt - 1885 - 560 pages
...the quick increase of its eggs, which are placed in a bag under the belly of the insect. The nigva therefore distinguishes what the most delicate chemical...blood of a European from those of a Creole white. The mosquitos, on the contrary, attack equally the natives and the Europeans; but the effects of the... | |
 | Entomology - 1896 - 428 pages
...apartment where a European, recently landed, is exposed to the attack of this animal. The l\'ig;ta. therefore, distinguishes what the most delicate chemical...not distinguish, the cellular membrane and blood of our European from those of a Creole white." — Cowan's Curious Facts. Identification of Insects i... | |
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This animal, almost invisible to the eye, gets under the toe-nails, and there acquires the size of a small pea, by the quick increase of its eggs, which are placed in a bag under the belly of the insect. The nigua therefore distinguishes what the most... 