ruckle

It is not too much to say that almost every step of the weary sultry way was in pain, and I reached Ujiji a mere ruckle of bones.

Proceeding up the west coast of Tanganyika, he reached Ujiji on the 14th of March 1869, “a ruckle of bones.”

Except this cantering mutter and a death-ruckle on the bed all was still in the darkling room.

Suddenly, the dead silence struck me: my ear missed the "ruckle," and the occasional exclamations of delight.

Ruckle and Olmstead owned the portage on the south side of the river, and their steamer was the Wasco.