Assertion: chigger's length | /r/CapableOf | produce mortification
Facets:
value: for himself
type: PURPOSE
value: for science
type: PURPOSE
value: in his leg
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: Walton, in his Present State of the Spanish Colonies, tells us of a Capuchin friar, who carried away with him a colony of Chigoes in his foot as a present to the Scientific Colleges in Europe; but, unfortunately for himself and for science, the length of the voyage produced mortification in his leg, that it became necessary to cut it off to save the zealous missionary's life, and the leg, with all its inhabitants, were tumbled together into the sea.