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a bag of young ones, for after her death the 

 walls were covered with tiny black spiders about 

 the eighth of an inch long, who speedily shared 

 the fate of their mother. 



Another formidable-looking light brown hairy 

 insect, with double mandibles, called a Galeodes 

 (Solpuga fatalis, Licht.), not a true spider, but 

 easily mistaken for one, I have also seen on the 

 walls at night and running in the sand about 

 dusk. They are rather plentiful here, and as 

 their bite is really poisonous, it is necessary to 

 wage war with them. 



A friend told me that one ran over his hand 

 while trying to capture it, and it felt painful 

 and numbed for some time. Afterwards he 

 managed to get two, one a very large one the 

 body measuring two inches under a jam dish, 

 intending to preserve them in spirits ; but they 

 immediately began to fight ferociously, and 

 after a little while the large one snapped off the 

 first half of his enemy's body and swallowed it, 

 and then ate up the other half. They were 

 then popped in the spirit bottle, but in rather a 



