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It has a pair of piiicer-like claws, four pairs of walking legs and lives 

 under stones and in holes. 



The poison of the scorpion is far more powerful than that of the 

 spiders, for even a strong man suffers most severely from its sting, 

 while a wound from it has more than once been known to result in the 

 death of the sufferer. But the oftener a man is stung by a scorpion 

 the less pain he suffers, and in time he will not feel its effects at all. 



Besides the insects we have given here there are countless others, 

 some poisonous, some not, very many totally unclassified and unknown 

 to naturalists. However, we have given the most important, best 

 known species which are likely to be met with in actual hunting in the 

 Dark Continent and which are within the scope of this work. 



