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  The 
  locusts 
  also 
  often 
  commit 
  great 
  ravages 
  in 
  China, 
  and 
  especially 
  

   in 
  the 
  Province 
  of 
  Xensi. 
  85 
  In 
  the 
  year 
  104 
  B. 
  C. 
  a 
  swarm 
  arose 
  in 
  the 
  

   east 
  and 
  flew 
  through 
  Turhoung, 
  near 
  Jumen 
  — 
  Thor 
  at 
  the 
  entrance 
  of 
  

   the 
  desert 
  of 
  Loj, 
  in 
  Western 
  China 
  — 
  and 
  the 
  consequence 
  was 
  so 
  great 
  

   a 
  famine 
  that 
  the 
  campaign 
  which 
  the 
  Emperor 
  Wan 
  Li 
  was 
  prosecuting 
  

   had 
  to 
  be 
  abandoned. 
  86 
  Navarette 
  87 
  says 
  that 
  in 
  the 
  reign 
  of 
  the 
  Em- 
  

   peror 
  Tai-Zung 
  (about 
  A. 
  D. 
  636) 
  immense 
  swarms 
  of 
  locusts 
  infested 
  

   China, 
  and 
  that 
  this 
  noble 
  Emperor, 
  to 
  stay 
  the 
  plague, 
  took 
  up 
  a 
  locust 
  

   in 
  the 
  presence 
  of 
  the 
  people 
  and 
  ate 
  it, 
  and 
  immediately 
  the 
  locusts 
  

   left 
  his 
  empire. 
  

  

  Ma-tuan-lin, 
  in 
  his 
  grand 
  encyclopedia 
  entitled 
  Wen-hein-tun-kao, 
  

   registers 
  year 
  by 
  year 
  the 
  locust 
  devastations 
  for 
  a 
  period 
  of 
  1924 
  years, 
  

   in 
  which 
  are 
  recorded 
  173 
  visitations. 
  88 
  

  

  John 
  White 
  89 
  witnessed 
  such 
  flights 
  of 
  locusts 
  in 
  the 
  island 
  of 
  Manila 
  

   in 
  1819 
  that 
  he 
  was 
  for 
  hours 
  protected 
  from 
  the 
  rays 
  of 
  the 
  sun 
  by 
  the 
  

   passing 
  swarms. 
  " 
  Fortunately," 
  he 
  adds, 
  "this 
  is 
  not 
  the 
  case 
  every 
  

   year, 
  and 
  many 
  years 
  have 
  elapsed 
  without 
  an 
  invasion." 
  He 
  simply 
  

   describes 
  them 
  as 
  brown 
  and 
  resembling 
  the 
  large 
  flying 
  grasshop- 
  

   per. 
  It 
  had 
  at 
  the 
  time 
  he 
  wrote 
  not 
  been 
  satisfactorily 
  ascertained 
  

   from 
  whence 
  they 
  came, 
  whether 
  from 
  a 
  distance 
  or 
  near 
  at 
  hand. 
  Paul 
  

   De 
  la 
  Gironiere 
  90 
  asserts 
  that 
  the 
  locusts 
  almost 
  regularly 
  every 
  seven 
  

   years 
  leave 
  the 
  isles 
  of 
  the 
  south 
  in 
  clouds 
  and 
  fall 
  upon 
  Luzon, 
  bring- 
  

   ing 
  desolation 
  and 
  even 
  famine. 
  He 
  describes 
  their 
  appearance 
  in 
  flight 
  

   ■as 
  a 
  " 
  fire 
  cloud 
  in 
  the 
  horizon." 
  The 
  figure 
  given 
  in 
  his 
  work 
  is 
  beyond 
  

   question 
  that 
  of 
  an 
  Acridium. 
  A 
  more 
  recent 
  traveler 
  to 
  these 
  islands, 
  

   F. 
  Jagor, 
  confirms 
  the 
  statements 
  of 
  Gironiere 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  locust 
  visita- 
  

   tions, 
  but 
  adds 
  in 
  a 
  note 
  that 
  the 
  species 
  is 
  identified 
  by 
  Gerstacker 
  as 
  

   Oedipoda 
  subfasciata 
  of 
  Haan 
  — 
  Acridium 
  manilense 
  of 
  May 
  en. 
  91 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  East 
  Indies, 
  according 
  to 
  Wahl, 
  92 
  there 
  were 
  found 
  not 
  only 
  the 
  

   destructive 
  army 
  locust 
  (G. 
  migratorius), 
  but 
  also 
  a 
  kind 
  of 
  yellow 
  locust 
  

   oalled 
  Tscheddy, 
  which 
  often 
  covers 
  whole 
  fields 
  and 
  darkens 
  the 
  air 
  

   like 
  a 
  cloud. 
  

  

  Major 
  Moore 
  93 
  was 
  an 
  eye-witness 
  in 
  Poonah 
  how 
  a 
  swarm 
  of 
  locusts 
  

   laid 
  waste 
  the 
  country 
  of 
  Mahratta, 
  and 
  was 
  supposed 
  to 
  have 
  come 
  

   out 
  of 
  Arabia. 
  Their 
  flight 
  (or 
  column) 
  is 
  supposed 
  to 
  have 
  extended 
  

   over 
  five 
  hundred 
  miles. 
  94 
  The 
  species 
  is 
  described 
  as 
  blood-red, 
  and 
  as 
  

   different 
  from 
  G. 
  migratorius. 
  The 
  Bombay 
  Courier 
  95 
  states 
  that 
  a 
  great 
  

  

  85 
  " 
  Keise 
  derHollandischen 
  Gesandtschaft 
  nach 
  China 
  vom 
  Jahre 
  1655-'57," 
  p. 
  356.— 
  Kefferstein. 
  

  

  86 
  Hitter, 
  p. 
  7. 
  

  

  * 
  7 
  "An 
  Account 
  of 
  the 
  Empire 
  of 
  China," 
  Churchill's 
  Voyages, 
  i, 
  95. 
  

  

  «s 
  Alfonso 
  Andreozzi, 
  " 
  Sulle 
  Cavallette," 
  &c— 
  Noticed 
  in 
  Bulletino, 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  Ital., 
  ii, 
  1870, 
  p. 
  77. 
  

  

  ■«9 
  " 
  Voyages 
  to 
  the 
  China 
  Sea," 
  140. 
  

  

  so 
  " 
  Twenty 
  Years 
  in 
  the 
  Philippines," 
  229. 
  

  

  91 
  " 
  Travels 
  in 
  the 
  Philippine 
  Islands," 
  273. 
  

  

  ^Erdbeschreibung 
  von 
  Ostindien, 
  B. 
  2, 
  844.— 
  Kefferstein. 
  

  

  93 
  According 
  to 
  Kirby 
  and 
  Spence. 
  Introduc. 
  pt. 
  1, 
  239. 
  

  

  94 
  As 
  no 
  statement 
  of 
  this 
  kind 
  is 
  found 
  in 
  Maj. 
  Moore's 
  "Narrative 
  of 
  Captain 
  Little's 
  Detachment," 
  

   we 
  presume 
  the 
  communication 
  was 
  verbal 
  or 
  by 
  letter. 
  

  

  95 
  January 
  21, 
  1826, 
  as 
  quoted 
  in 
  the 
  Asiatic 
  Journal, 
  vol. 
  23, 
  pg. 
  90. 
  

  

  