CHAPTEE VII. 



INSECTS. 



It was always a matter of wonder to me when landing 

 on an island without a habitation on it ; without a 

 living creature of any description to be seen ; the only 

 herbage a rank rough short grass and wild parsley ; to 

 find myself in a few moments covered with a species 

 of tick, about one-sixteenth of an inch in diameter, — 

 little, brown, active fellows, which came off the grass 

 and the ground, and stuck pertinaciously to flannel 

 clothing, or walked, for their activity hardly reached 



