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beetle the corslet of which becomes dazzling in the gloom. 

 In Cuba the women often inclose several of these Coleop- 

 tera in little cages of glass or wood, which they hang up 

 in their rooms, and this living lustre throws out sufficient 



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light to serve to work by. Travellers there also, in a diffi- 

 cult road, light their path in the middle of the night hj 

 attaching one of these beetles to each of their feet. The 

 Creoles sometimes set them in the curls of their hair, where. 



