3*72 MISCELLANEOUS. 



rica, sometimes suffered considerably from scarcity of meat, 

 though not from absolute want of food. And the natives, 

 says this traveler, to show their sympathy, gave the children, 

 who suffered most, a large kind of caterpillar, which they 

 seemed to relish. He concluded these insects could not be 

 unwholesome, for the natives devoured them in large quan- 

 tities themselves.^ 



1 Trav. and Res. in S. Africa, p. 48. 



