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SOUTHERN AFRICA. 
The locust f Gcryllus migratoriusj which the 
Bushmen use for food, is, of course, only pa- 
latable to their peculiar taste — blended, as it 
is, with grease and filth, and sometimes with 
the reeking blood of a quagga or hysena. We 
have, however, tasted them, when prepared as 
they are stored, viz, divested of the thorny 
part of the leg and wings, dried in the sun, 
and ground into a kind of meal or powder 
between two stones. This preparation, when 
mixed with wild honey, and baked, is by 
no means a more repulsive repast, than the 
fricassee of snails or frogs, which our continental 
neighbours consider so fine, and which even 
some English connoisseurs do not wholly dis- 
card or decline to appreciate. 
Hunting is the chief resource of these wild 
people. And this, like all the rest of their ac- 
tions, whether for war or peace, is conducted 
principally by deceit and cunning. Through- 
out all their habits, whatever they have not 
strength, ingenuity, or patience to accomplish 
otherwise, they endeavour to effect, through 
the medium of treachery, guile, and perfidy. 
Hence, in the art of carrying off their pillage 
from any unfortunate frontier farmer, whose 
lands or flocks they may approach in their 
migrations, they display great dexterity, and 
generally decamp with the spoil, and devour 
