372 MISCELLANEOUS. 



rica, sometimes suffered considerably from scarcity of meat, 

 though not from absolute want of food. And the natives, 

 says this traveler, to show their sympathy, gave the children, 

 who suffered most, a large kind of caterpillar, which they 

 seemed to relish. He concluded these insects could not be 

 unwholesome, for the natives devoured them in large quan- 

 tities themselves.^ 



1 Trav. and Res. in S. Africa, p. 48. 



