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plore new and distant regions. In this form the 
animal comes abroad during or soon after the first 
tornado, which at the latter end of the dry season 
proclaims the approach of the ensuing rains, and 
seldom waits for a second or third shower, if the 
first, as is generally the case, happens in the 
night, and brings much wet after it. 
“ The quantities that are to be found the next 
morning all over the surface of the earth, but par- 
ticularly on the waters, is astonishing; for their 
wings are only calculated to carry them a few 
hours, and after the rising of the sun not one in a 
thousand is to be found with four wings, unless 
the morning continues rainy, when here and there 
a solitary being is seen winging its v/ay from one 
place to another, as if solicitous only to avoid its 
numerous enemies, particularly various species of 
Ants which are hunting on every spray, on every 
leaf, and in every possible place, for this unhappy 
race, of which probably not a pair in many mil- 
lions get into a place of safety, fulfil the first law 
of nature, and lay the foundation of a new com- 
munity. 
‘‘ Not only all kinds of ants, birds, and carni- 
vorous reptiles, as well as insects, are upon the 
hunt for them, but the inhabitants of many coun- 
tries, and particularly of that part of Africa where 
I was, eat them. 
“ On the following morning, however, as I 
have observed, they are to be seen running upon 
the ground in chace of each other; sometimes 
with one or two wings still hanging to their bo- 
