A Voyage to JAMAICA. 29 
The Jndians take Fifh with thefé hang’d at a Rope, the Remore apply them- 
felves to other Fithes, and take them as Zibaroni, ec. Col. 112. They ufed 
to Fifh with them, putting them out, and holding them in a Line, they 
woud fix on Manati, forcing them to dry ground, Aldrov. lib, 3-Rondel. lib. 15. 
The Mariners do not obferve any manner of Current in this great Ocean, 
but {uch as follows the Wind. 
On the Sixteenth of this Month in the Lat. of 14°. 40’. North, and bein 
about Five hundred Leagues diftant from Barbados, which was near due Eaft of 
us, in ordinary Weather one of the Sailers that was on the Forecaftle took up 
a“ttee live Grafhopper, and brought it me, which thinking very ftrange, 
as being a very great way from Land, I immediately enquired as nicely into, 
as poflibly I could, and was aflured by him thar gave it me, that it came nor 
thither from Land with them, or by any accident, but fell down from the 
Rigging of the Ship ; which he fuppofed might perhaps ftop its courfe. A Ofe Locu/ 
Seaman, on this occafion, averred to me that he faw fome of the fame fly obferved at 
through the Rigging of the Ship ; and fome other Scamen in the fame Fleer Sea 
we were in, made the fame obfervation. When I came to Barbados I met 
there Sir John Narborough, who was then going to the Plate Wreck near Eiif- 
paniola, and thinking this very odd, and him a very experienc d.and obfervin 
Perfon in fuch matters: I asked him if ever he had {een the like, he ela 
very often, and that it was very ordinary to obferve them fly many Leagues 
from Land at Sea. The Defcription of this I then took as follows, and called it 
Locufta maxima, ithe! sk ae Maculs Brunis. 
This Locuft from the Head to the end of the Wings was two Inches and a 
half long, its Body was two Inches in length, in the Abdomen were {even Ta).1 
Jncifures, it had two Antenne each half an Inch long, a large Purple and 
Brown Hea, with two lenticular Eyes each Prominent, three pair or fix 
Legs, taking their Origin from the Zhorax, the hindermoft pair being thick 
at the Thighs and prickly, two Inches long, more than twice as long as thofe 
before, thofe in the middle longer than the foremoft, the Wings membrana- 
ceous, of an Afh, inclining to Red or Purple Colour, with many brown {pots 
on them: it had three Incifures on its Back, which was guarded, as it were, 
with armour. 
This fame accident did Vanderhagen take notice of in his Voyage, as ap- 
ak by the following Note, though he does not mention the diftance from 
Land. : 
Ia reditu eS. F{elena multa rufe fubaibide locufte vifebantur, aque innatantes ; 
quarum CG queadam in naves ipfas, advolitabant. Vanderhag. Excerpt. Cluf. Cur. 
olf. 
; ley are in great numbers (about Senega) cover the Ground and obfcure 
the Air every third or fourth year, deftroying all. Cadamofto, 
They are falted and eat by the thiopians. Efcarbot nova Francia, p. 210. 
They confume, a Famine follows, and thena Plague. Schnirdel. 
They deftroy the Ground not only for the rime, but burn Trees for two 
Years after; fo that People (in Ethiopia) are forc'd to fell themfelves and Chil- 
dren for Suftenance. Fo. dos Sanctos. 
This Locuft isthe fame with thofe eaten in Barbary, they dry them in Ovens 
to preferve them, then either eat them alone, or pounded and mixed with 
Milk. Captain Dampier has told methey taft like Shrimps, and they are with- 
out queftion fed on by the Inhabitants of many places of the World. That 
they are the Qails mentioned, Numb. 11. 31. feems to be plainly proved by 
Ludolfus, who in his Appendix to his Commentaries on his Ethiopick Hiftory 
has exprefly at large di{courfed very learnedly on this matter. Some years fince 
many Locutis very like the{e came into Wales, where they lived a {mall time and 
dyed, | think through the inclemency of the Air; but by their courfe I vs 
member 
.Fig.3. 
