314 MOSQUITOS A ' CAUTION.' 



fly (Tabanus\ the tiny burning fly (beulot or 

 sand-fly of the trappers), and the well-known 

 and deservedly-hated mosquito, are capable of 

 inflicting. 



A wanderer from my boyhood, I have met with 

 these pests in various parts of our globe in the 

 country of Czernomorzi, among the Black Sea 

 Cossacks, on the plains of Troy, up on Mount 

 Olympus, amid the gorgeous growths of a tro- 

 pical forest, where beauty and malaria, twin 

 brothers, walk hand-in-hand away in the deep 

 dismal solitudes of the swamps on the banks of 

 the Mississippi, on the wide grassy tracts of the 

 Western prairies, and on the snow-clad summits 

 of the Rocky Mountains. 



Widely remote and singularly opposite as to 

 climate as are these varied localities, yet, as these 

 pests are there in legions, I imagined that I had 

 endured the maximum of misery they were 

 capable of producing. I was mistaken ; all my 

 experience, all my vaunted knowledge of their 

 numbers, all I had seen and suffered, was as 

 nothing to what I subsequently endured. On 

 the Sumass prairie, and along the banks of the 

 Fraser river, the mosquitos are, as a Yankee 

 would say, ' a caution.' 



In the summer our work, that of cutting the 



