Itchings, hitherto unknown, are felt all over the body, and render my skin sometimes painfully tender, sometimes quite benumbed, as if it were dead.

This was done with a rod and a small spoon-hook, and the favorable spots were whipped from the end of the canoe, just as one would cast for trout in a lake.

a rough-barked tree

I immediately opened the door and stepped out into the inn-yard, crowded with conducteurs, grooms, and ostlers, who, I thought, looked rather surprised at seeing me emerge from the diligence.