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nounced them jiggers. How to remove them was the 

 next question. William soon settled that, for he called 

 in the first old negress that happened to be passing, 

 and she turned those jiggers out of their nests with an 

 adroitness that showed long practice. 



Care must be taken that none of the eggs remain in 

 the wound, as the larva? hatched from them burrow 

 into the flesh, and eventually create painful ulcers. 

 The eggs and insect are contained in a sac, which 

 must be turned out with a pin or needle with great 

 care, and the cavhty filled with tobacco ashes to de- 

 stroy any remaining germ. After I had got rid of my 

 unwelcome tenants, there was a hole in each toe large 

 enough to contain a humming-bird's egg. This, my 

 first experience with the -pulex penetrans, was so satis- 

 factory that I carefully guarded against the develop- 

 ment of any more eggs of those loathsome insects. 

 A few hours are sufficient to give the jigger a hiding- 

 place, and as the sensation he causes is a rather 

 pleasant itching only, for a time, he is sometimes not 

 discovered until a painful sore is formed. The ne- 

 groes are very negligent in attending to these sores, 

 which increase to such an extent as to endanger their 

 limbs ; negroes with all their toes eaten away are 

 daily met with, and I have seen several who have lost 

 a leg from this same cause. 



It was my intention to visit St. Kitts, with a view 

 to obtaining some specimens of monkeys residing 

 there, but an invitation to an island in another direc- 

 tion caused me to abandon it. Though St. Kitts may 

 be very interesting in many other respects, it is espe- 

 cially so to a naturalist, as it contains great numbers 

 of monkeys, being one of three islands in the Antilles 



