Think of it as the Martian equivalent of the Fountain of Youth, which that grizzled and gullible old soldier-of-fortune, Ponce de Leon, once searched for in the fever-swamps of Florida, and you will not be far off the mark.
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Fever-swamp
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It was so hot in this fever-swamp that his water requirements would be prodigious.
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And now we were fairly on the bosom of the 'mighty' Mississippi, that largest, and ugliest, and most tremendous of rivers ; tremendous through the force of its resistless currents, and the fever-swamps that spread their noxious vapours over its surface.
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The community has been the focus of the fever-swamp for years, with pundits insisting it's a terrorist training camp.
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