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THE COMBAT. 

 THE TROPICAL REGIONS. 



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A IADY of our family, who resided in 

 Louisiana, was nursing her young child. Every 

 nioht her sleep was troubled by the strange 

 sensation of a cold gliding object which sought 

 to draw the milk. from her breast. On one occasion 

 F she felt the same impression, and it aroused her. She 

 sprang up, summoned her attendants; a light was 

 ) brought ; they search every comer, turn over the bed, 

 and It last discover the frightful nursling a serpent of 

 great size and of a dangerous species. The horror which 

 she felt instantly dried up her milk. 



Levafflant relates that at the Cape of Good Hope, 

 'in a circle of friends, and during a quiet conversation, 

 the lady of the house turned pale, and uttered a terrible 

 cry. A serpent had crept up her legs, one of those 

 whose sting is death in a couple of minutes. With 

 . x great difficulty it was killed. 



In India a French soldier, resuming his knapsack which he had 

 placed on the ground, discovered behind it the dangerous black 



