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head is a prominent round luminous body. These animals 

 in the dark emit a strong steady light, so that two or three put 

 into a glass will enable you to read. The smaller fire fly is 

 not above half the size of the former. They are never seen 

 but by night, when they emit sparks of fire at intervals. 



# * The palm-tree or groe-groe worm, is about three inches 

 in length, and about the thickness of a man's linger. The 

 head is black, and the body of a light yellow. This animal 

 breeds in the heart of the cabbage tree after it is cut down. 

 When roasted and seasoned, it is considered as very fine, and 

 equal to any marrow. 



The scorpion is about six inches long, of a light brown 

 colour, with black spots ; it has two claws proceeding from 

 the neck, about an inch long, jointed and having a pair of 

 nippers at the end ; it has four pair of legs ; the tail is jointed* 

 forked, and armed with two small crooked sharp stings, of 

 which the uppermost is the longest. The bite of this insect is 

 venomous. . . , : > i 



The centipede is about six inches in length and five lines in 

 breadth ; its body has twenty joints, to each of which belongs 

 a pair of legs, so that it has forty legs instead of a hundred, as 

 its name expresses; at each end it has a pair of forked feelers, 

 and a pair of strong forceps at its head. It moves with equal 



