Word: blistering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sacks; cans weighed too much, took up too much room. Their collapsible canvas boats were always being punctured by rocks in the rapids of the Kuluseu, but came in handy when they reached the Xingu, tributary of the Amazon. Flies were their constant companions: borochudas, which leave a blood-blister; garapatas, which cling together in swarms; stingless bees, which crawled "up our nostrils, into our ears, down our necks"; fire ants, whose bites "feel exactly like flames rippling over one's body"; big black ants which hissed like snakes when you pinned them down with a twig. When they...