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Often appears with: voyages and seafaring · travel hazards · the human body and its parts · river crossing · reduvius bugs · locust swarms · famine, scarcity, and plenty
Usually: narrative (1) · detachment (1)
“and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle:” or rather, I should say, like a strong breeze passing through the rigging of a ship.” Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle · vivid
Darwin describes traveling from Luxan across the Pampas and encountering a massive, fast-moving locust swarm, then recounts being attacked at night by benchuca “black bugs” that suck blood.
worn smooth and accumulated by the waves of the sea while the Pampas, covered by thistles, clover, and grass, have been formed by the ancient estuary mud of the Plata. After our two days' tedious journey, it was refreshing to see in the distance the rows of poplars and willows growing round the village and river of Luxan. Shortly before we arrived at this place, we observed to the south a ragged cloud of dark reddi…