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Third famoiis for crabs, and strangers who go thither, consider 



— them the greatest luxury. The Scotch gentleman made 



a very capital dinner on crabs ; but this change of diet 

 was productive of unpleasant circumstances : he awoke 

 in the night in that state in which Virgil describes 

 Cseleno to have been, viz. " fsedissima ventris proluvies.'* 

 Up he got, to verify the remark, 



" Serius aut citius, sedem properamus ad unam." 



Now, unluckily for himself, and the nocturnal tran- 

 quillity of the planter's house, just at that unfortunate 

 hour, the Coushie ants were passing across the seat of 

 Cloacina's temple ; he had never dreamed of this ; and 

 so, turning his face to the door, he placed himself in 

 the usual situation which the votaries of the goddess 

 generally take. Had a lighted match dropped upon a 

 pound of gunpowder, as he afterwards remarked, it 

 could not have caused a greater recoil. Up he jumped, 

 and forced his way out, roaring for help and for a light, 

 for he was worried alive by ten thousand devils. The 

 fact is, he had sat down upon an intervening body of 

 Coushie ants. Many of those which escaped being 

 crushed to death, turned again ; and, in revenge, stung 

 the unintentional intruder most severely. The watchman 

 had fallen asleep, and it was some time before a light 

 could be procured, the fire having gone out ; in the 

 mean time, the poor gentleman was suffering an in- 

 describable martyrdom, and would have found himself 



