Crossword-Solution: CHIGOES 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

When Benito had finished his business and returned on board, his face and hands were tattooed with thousands of red points, without counting some chigoes, which, in spite of the leather of his boots, had introduced themselves beneath his toes.

Over heartbreaking mountainous paths, through miasmic jungles, across sun-baked plateaus, chilled by night and scorched by day, chafed and sore, tortured by _niguas_ and _coloradillas_, mosquitoes and _chigoes_, sleeping in verminous hay-thatched huts of bamboo bound together with bejuco-vine, mislead by lying natives and stolen from by peons, Blake day by day and week by week fought his way after his enemy.

THE TRUE CHIGGERS--The chigoes, or true chiggers, are the most completely parasitic of any of the fleas.

Overhead were countless chigoes, garapatas and fire-ants which infested the body or buried themselves in the flesh.

Redi, an Italian physician, was the first propagator of this doctrine in modern times, and published, in 1685, a paper of Cestoni of Leghorn, who had frequently observed mendicants and galley-slaves extracting these insects from the pustules of itch with the point of a pin, in the same manner as _chigoes_ are extracted from their cyst in the West Indies.