The worst were little red bugs that lay under the leaves called carrapati's and that came off on you in a hundred at a time.

And there were also "jiggers" that get under your nails and leave eggs there.

Some times we could not sleep at all for the bites and you had to carry a brush to brush the carripats off every time you passed through bushes.

It's the damnedest country I was ever in now that I have time to think of it.

The other day I was going in to bathe and the sand was so hot that I could not get to the breakers and so I went yelling and jumping back to the grass and the grass was just one mass of burrs, so I gave another yell and leaped on to a big log and the log was full of thorns.