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ciplined tribe, eonsisting of males and females, but 

 neither so robust, nor so numerous as the former. 

 The night is their chief time of proceeding ; but if it 

 rains by day, they do not fail to profit by the occa- 

 sion. And they continue* to move forward in their 

 slow, uniform manner. When the sun shines hot, 

 they make an universal halt, and wait till the cool of 

 the evening. When they are terrified they march 

 back in a disorderly manner, holding up their nip. 

 pers with which they sometimes tear off a piece of the 

 flesh of an assailant, and leave the weapon where they 

 indicted the wound. They often clatter their nippers 

 together, as if it were to threaten those that come to 

 disturb them. But though they thus strive to be 

 formidable to man, they are much more so to each 

 other ; lor if any of them by accident is maimed 

 in such a manner, as to be incapable of proceeding, 

 the rest fall upon and devour it on the spot, and then 

 pursue their journey. 



When after a fatiguing march, perhaps of three 

 months, they arrive at their destined port, they pre- 

 pare to cast their spawn. The peas are as yet with* 

 in their bodies, and not as is usual in animals of this 

 kind, under the tail. And the creature waits for the 

 benefit of the sea- water, to help the delivery. For 

 this purpose, the crab has no sooner reached the 

 shore, than it eagerly goe* to the edge of the water, 

 and leis the waves wash over its body, two or three 

 times. Then they withdraw to st'ek a lodging upon, 

 land: in the mean time, the spawn grows larger, is 

 excluded out of the body, and sticks to the barbg 

 under the tail. In this state of pregnancy, they 

 once more seek the shore, and shaking off tae bpawa 

 into the water, leave it there. At this time whole 

 shoals of hungry fish are in expectation of this annual 

 supply. The sea to a great distance is black with 

 them ; and about two thirds of the crabs eggs are im- 

 mediately devoured. The eggs that escape are hatched 

 under the sand ; and soon after millions at a time of 

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