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but this soon becomes a habit in a tropical 

 climate. 



Once I found a lively specimen on my arm 

 whilst in my bath, and twice centipedes have 

 been my uninvited companions of the bath, they 

 having crept into the holes in the sponge during 

 the night. 



Cockroaches are a great nuisance, impossible 

 to banish, and although the males of some of 

 the white and variegated species look rather 

 nice when their wings are properly laid out, 

 one does not care for whole families alive in the 

 house, and only creeping out of their hiding- 

 places towards night. Should a candle be 

 suddenly lighted in the small hours, many will 

 be seen dotted about the walls perhaps a big 

 one will scamper off over the bed-clothes 

 moving their long feelers about and looking 

 quite scared at the unusual light. Then is the 

 time, if not too sleepy, to go round with the 

 towel made into a flapper. I find that the 

 female, after depositing her capsule full of 

 eggs on the walls, ingeniously covers it up 



