Fourteen stomping, drumming, roaring men pounded rapid-fire rhythms into the ground with many surfaces of their feet — heels, toes, inside and especially outside edges — and with spinning boleadoras, floor-skimming stones attached to lassoes.

an austral migrant

[Worms are] the natural diggers and dungers of land, worm-casts being nothing more than the dung of the worm.

Frost is possessed of strong antiseptical qualities. Animal substances of all sorts may be taken to Greenland from England, and there preserved for an indefinite length of time without being smoked, dried, or salted.