THE HURRICANE SEASON. I7I 
nounced thegn jiggers. How to remove them was the 
next question. William soon settled that, for he called 
in the first old negress that happened to be passing, 
and she turned those jiggers out of their nests with an 
adroitness that showed long practice. 
Care must be taken that none of the eggs remain in 
the wound, as the larve hatched from them burrow 
into the flesh, and eventually create painful ulcers. 
The eggs and insect are contained in a sac, which 
must be turned out with a pin or needle with great 
care, and the cavity filled with tobacco ashes to de- 
stroy any remaining germ. After I had got rid of my 
unwelcome tenants, there was a hole in each toe large 
enough to contain a humming-bird’s egg. This, my 
first experience with the pulex penetrans, was so satis- 
factory that I carefully guarded against the develop- 
ment of any more eggs of those loathsome insects. 
A few hours are sufficient to give the jigger a hiding- 
place, and as the sensation he causes is a rather 
pleasant itching only, for a time, he is sometimes not 
discovered until a painful sore is formed. The ne- 
groes are very negligent in attending to these sores, 
which increase to such an extent as to endanger their 
limbs; negroes with all their toes eaten away are 
daily met with, and I have seen several who have lost 
a leg from this same cause. 
It was my intention to visit St. Kitts, with a view 
to obtaining some specimens of monkeys residing 
there, but an invitation to an island in another direc- 
tion caused me to abandon it. Though St. Kitts may 
be very interesting in many other respects, it is espe- 
cially so to a naturalist, as it contains great numbers 
of monkeys, being one of three islands in the Antilles 
