THE COMBAT. 
THE TROPICAL REGIONS. ; 
A “apy of our family, who resided in 
Louisiana, was nursing her young child. Every 
night her sleep was troubled by the strange 
sensation of a cold gliding object which sought 
to draw the milk from her breast. On one occasion 
~ she felt the same impression, and it aroused her. She 
va sprang up, summoned her attendants; a light was 
‘ brought ; they search every corner, turn over the bed, 
and at last discover the frightful nursling—a serpent of 
great size and of a dangerous species. The horror which 
she felt instantly dried up her milk. : 
Levaillant relates that at the Cape of Good Hope, 
in a circle of friends, and during a quiet conversation, 
the lady of the house turned pale, and uttered a terrible 
cd a ery. A serpent had crept up her legs, one of those 
whose sting is death in a couple of minutes. With 
‘™ ~~ great difficulty it was killed. 
In India, a French soldier, resuming his knapsack which he had 
placed on the ground, discovered behind it the dangerous black 
