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they got a mouthful of insects instead. The locusts 

 struck them Uke falling hail until the herds sought 

 refuge in flight, but no matter in which direction they 

 ran, escape was impossible, for this cloud filled the 

 air for many square miles with a whirring mass of 

 locusts. 



We all worked frantically to secure as much film as 

 possible while the fight remained. An opportunity 

 such as this seldom presents itself, so we took full 

 advantage of it, only stopping the cameras when the 

 sun commenced to set. While we were recording this 

 devastating army of invasion, the words of Moses kept 

 running through my mind: 



"For they covered the face of the whole earth, so 

 that the land was darkened; and they did eat every 

 herb of the land, and aU the fruit of the trees, and 

 there remained not any green thing in the trees, or"in 

 the herbs of the field, through all the land." 



