AMONG THE PALMS 



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When we rested for lunch, it was discovered that 

 ticks had selected quarters on different portions of our 

 bodies, chiefly at the back of the neck. These repul- 

 sive parasites swarm on foliage in the scrub, and 



NETTLE TREE, AMONG PALMS. 



when one passes close enough seize the opportunity 

 to win a warm-blooded host. The scrub tick is small, 

 and works so gently that one does not feel any incon- 

 venience, perhaps, until it has buried its head deeply 

 in the flesh. If, in disgust, the victim tries to tear 

 a tick from its hold, the head is apt to be left in the 



