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rapidity either backward or forward. Its bite is venomous and 

 painful. 



To these may be added the chigoe, a sort of flea, of a dusky 

 color. This insect, as has already been observed, is very 

 troublesome by insinuating itself under tlie skin of the feet ; 

 if not extracted, it forms for itself a bag, in which it deposits 

 its eggs ; these eggs are hatched, and the new insects form 

 other bags and deposit other eggs ; the consequence of this 

 breeding are ulcers, which are difficult to heal, and very 

 painful ; but they are seldom suffered thus to breed undis- 

 turbed ; they are picked out as soon as the itching which they 

 produce is perceived, and the art consists in extracting the 

 bag unbroken. These insects are very numerous. 



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