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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: which infest this marshy country.
Travelers who are obliged to cross the Baraba during
the summer take care to provide themselves with masks of
horse-hair, to which is attached a coat of mail of very fine
wire, which covers their shoulders. Notwithstanding these
precautions, there are few who come out of these marshes
without having their faces, necks, and hands covered with
red spots. The atmosphere there seems to bristle with
fine needles, and one would almost say that a knight's
armor would not protect him against the darts of these
dipterals. It is a dreary region, which man dearly disputes
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