musketoes

In warm weather, especially in the spring, the slaves keep up a smoke, or fire and smoke, all night, to drive away the gnats and musketoes, which are very troublesome in all the low country of the south; so much so that the whites sleep under frames with nets over them, knit so fine that the musketoes cannot fly through them.

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society

In warm weather, especially in the spring, the slaves keep up a smoke, or fire and smoke, all night, to drive away the gnats and musketoes, which are very troublesome in all the low country of the south; so much so that the whites sleep under frames with nets over them, knit so fine that the musketoes cannot fly through them.

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

_ O Misery to the full! to see the aged sire beating off the swarms of gnats and musketoes in the warm weather, and shivering in the straw, or bending over a few coals in the winter, clothed in rags.

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society

The captives were exceedingly astonished at the suddenness of the attack, and declared that the yankees would rise up like musketoes out of a marsh, and kill them.

The Yankee Tea-party Or, Boston in 1773 Henry C. Watson

In South Carolina musketoes swarm in myriads, more than half the year -- they are so excessively annoying at night, that no family thinks of sleeping without nets or

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

In South Carolina musketoes swarm in myriads, more than half the year -- they are so excessively annoying at night, that no family thinks of sleeping without nets or

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society

_ O Misery to the full! to see the aged sire beating off the swarms of gnats and musketoes in the warm weather, and shivering in the straw, or bending over a few coals in the winter, clothed in rags.

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

This place like all other marshes and swamps among the mountains is infested with innumerable swarms of horse flies and musketoes to the great annoyance of man and beast during the day but the cold air descending from the mountains at night compells them to seek shelter among the leaves and grass at an early hour.

Journal of a Trapper 1914

We have no musketoes but snakes are alarmingly frequent in these parts.

Bill Arp from the uncivil war to date, 1861-1903, 1903

At night doors and windows all closed to keep out the musketoes, that buzz and hum and bite continually.

Diary of Jason Niles (1814-1894) : June 22, 1861-December 31, 1864, 1864