﻿LOCUSTS 
  IN 
  ASIA 
  AND 
  EGYPT. 
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  der, 
  Benjamin 
  of 
  Tudela, 
  Mandeville, 
  Bertrandon 
  de 
  la 
  Brocquiere, 
  or 
  

   Maundrell 
  — 
  makes 
  any 
  mention 
  of 
  the 
  locusts. 
  The 
  same 
  thing 
  is 
  true 
  

   in 
  reference 
  to 
  De 
  Velde, 
  to 
  Bev. 
  J. 
  L. 
  Porter, 
  who 
  resided 
  for 
  five 
  years 
  

   at 
  Damascus; 
  to 
  Stevens, 
  Stanley, 
  and 
  a 
  host 
  of 
  other 
  travelers 
  in 
  this 
  

   part 
  of 
  Asia 
  ; 
  which 
  is 
  strong 
  negative 
  evidence 
  that 
  there 
  ore 
  numer- 
  

   ous 
  and 
  considerable 
  periods 
  of 
  rest 
  from 
  this 
  plague 
  in 
  this 
  part 
  of 
  

   Asia, 
  where 
  it 
  is 
  supposed 
  to 
  be 
  so 
  constantly 
  found. 
  

  

  Olivier 
  66 
  relates 
  that 
  following 
  the 
  south 
  wind, 
  great 
  clouds 
  of 
  locusts 
  

   come 
  up 
  out 
  of 
  the 
  interior 
  of 
  Arabia 
  and 
  the 
  southwest 
  regions 
  of 
  Per- 
  

   sia, 
  into 
  Syria 
  and 
  Mesopotamia. 
  He 
  was 
  twice 
  an 
  eye-witness 
  of 
  their 
  

   invasions, 
  the 
  species 
  being 
  A. 
  peregrinnm. 
  He 
  observed 
  this 
  species 
  in 
  

   Egypt, 
  Arabia, 
  Mesopotamia, 
  and 
  Persia. 
  The 
  neighborhood 
  of 
  Aleppo 
  

   is 
  frequently 
  ravaged 
  by 
  locusts. 
  67 
  In 
  the 
  year 
  1800, 
  J. 
  Morier 
  observed 
  

   their 
  devastations 
  in 
  the 
  region 
  of 
  Smyrna, 
  and 
  describes 
  the 
  perfect 
  

   insects 
  as 
  3J 
  inches 
  long 
  from 
  the 
  head 
  to 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  legs 
  ; 
  of 
  a 
  red 
  

   color. 
  He 
  states 
  that 
  they 
  remained 
  until 
  July 
  and 
  August 
  upon 
  the 
  

   fields, 
  "driven 
  now 
  inland, 
  now 
  ocean 
  wards 
  by 
  the 
  winds." 
  68 
  B. 
  B. 
  

   Madden 
  69 
  states 
  that 
  in 
  Smyrna 
  he 
  has 
  seen 
  the 
  sky 
  literally 
  black 
  with 
  

   them 
  ; 
  and 
  that 
  they 
  appear 
  always 
  to 
  travel 
  in 
  a 
  straight 
  meridional 
  

   line, 
  and 
  thus 
  all 
  the 
  line 
  of 
  country 
  in 
  their 
  course 
  is 
  laid 
  waste 
  by 
  

   them. 
  Irby 
  and 
  Mangles 
  70 
  observed 
  them 
  at 
  Shobek 
  (near 
  Mount 
  Hor), 
  

   and 
  were 
  told 
  by 
  their 
  guide 
  that 
  they 
  were 
  on 
  their 
  way 
  to 
  Gaza, 
  and 
  

   that 
  they 
  pass 
  almost 
  annually. 
  Chesney 
  71 
  says 
  the 
  fields 
  of 
  Asia 
  

   Minor 
  suffer 
  comparatively 
  little 
  from 
  locusts, 
  but 
  that 
  they 
  are 
  not 
  

   wanting 
  in 
  Syria. 
  W. 
  G. 
  Palgrave 
  72 
  encountered 
  the 
  locusts 
  on 
  the 
  

   Hasa 
  plain, 
  where 
  he 
  says 
  they 
  had 
  alighted 
  in 
  their 
  northerly 
  wander- 
  

   ings 
  from 
  their 
  birth-place 
  in 
  Dahna. 
  He 
  speaks 
  of 
  them 
  as 
  being 
  red- 
  

   dish-brown 
  and 
  of 
  large 
  size. 
  

  

  M. 
  Niebuhr, 
  who 
  was 
  accompanied 
  by 
  Forskal 
  in 
  his 
  travels 
  through 
  

   Arabia 
  and 
  other 
  eastern 
  countries, 
  gives 
  some 
  important 
  items 
  of 
  in- 
  

   formation 
  in 
  reference 
  to 
  the 
  locusts 
  of 
  these 
  regions. 
  He 
  says 
  they 
  

   did 
  not 
  find 
  the 
  numbers 
  so 
  great 
  as 
  they 
  are 
  commonly 
  supposed 
  to 
  be 
  

   in 
  Europe. 
  In 
  Egypt 
  he 
  once 
  only 
  saw 
  a 
  cloud, 
  which 
  was 
  brought 
  by 
  

   a 
  south 
  wind 
  from 
  the 
  deserts 
  of 
  Lybia 
  and 
  fell 
  in 
  Cairo. 
  In 
  November, 
  

   1762, 
  he 
  observed 
  a 
  large 
  cloud 
  of 
  them 
  at 
  Jidda, 
  which 
  was 
  driven 
  

   over 
  the 
  city 
  by 
  a 
  west 
  wind 
  from 
  the 
  other 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  Arabic 
  gulf. 
  

   He 
  adds, 
  " 
  Therefore, 
  many 
  of 
  the 
  insects 
  must 
  have 
  been 
  drowned 
  in 
  

   their 
  passage." 
  In 
  July 
  following 
  he 
  found 
  a 
  small 
  quantity 
  near 
  Mount 
  

   Sumara, 
  which 
  seemed 
  to 
  have 
  spent 
  the 
  season 
  in 
  Arabia. 
  " 
  These 
  

   swarms 
  often 
  cross 
  the 
  Bed 
  Sea 
  a 
  second 
  time 
  and 
  return 
  to 
  Egypt 
  r 
  

   the 
  upper 
  part 
  of 
  which, 
  adjoining 
  the 
  deserts 
  of 
  Lybia, 
  seems 
  to 
  be 
  the 
  

  

  66 
  Travels 
  in 
  Syria, 
  2, 
  695. 
  

  

  n 
  Russell's 
  Aleppo, 
  p. 
  407. 
  

  

  08 
  " 
  Second 
  Journey," 
  90.— 
  Hitter. 
  

  

  66 
  Travels 
  in 
  Turkey. 
  Egypt. 
  Nubia, 
  and 
  Palestine, 
  1824-'27. 
  ii, 
  30. 
  

  

  70 
  Travels 
  in 
  Egypt 
  and 
  Nubia, 
  Syria 
  and 
  the 
  Holy 
  Land. 
  Murry's 
  ed.. 
  136. 
  

  

  n 
  "Expedition 
  to 
  the 
  Euphrates," 
  vol. 
  i, 
  362 
  and 
  537, 
  

  

  72 
  "Narrative 
  of 
  a 
  Year's 
  Journey 
  through 
  Central 
  and 
  Eastern 
  Arabia, 
  18G2-'63," 
  2d 
  ed., 
  pp. 
  137-8. 
  

  

  