Sentence:  Whose loot is this, if it is not ours? Where is the justice that I should give it up to those who have never earned it? Look how I have earned it! Twenty long years in that <WSD>fever-ridden</WSD> swamp, all day at work under the mangrove-tree, all night chained up in the filthy convict-huts, bitten by mosquitoes, racked with ague ... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  ("of a place") Harbouring the virus that causes one of the diseases known as fever.