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fo numerous, that they darkened the a?r ; thej 
did not, liowever, rife very high above our 
heads, and they formed a column which 
might be about three thoufand feet in length,, 
and, reckoning by my watch, three hours 
elapfed before they had pafled us. This 
fwarm were fo clofe, that feveral of them, 
ftifled or hurt by being dallied againft the 
reft, fell down like hail, while Kecs, who 
colleded them, feafted on them with muth 
pleafure. 
They afforded an excellent treat alfo to 
my people, who extolled this m.anna fo much 
that I yielded to the temptation, and wiflied 
to partake with them ; but if it is true, as 
we are affured, that in Greece, and particu- 
larly at Athens, the public markets were aU 
ways fupplied with this food, and that it was 
much fought after by the epicures of the 
time, I freely confefs, that I fliould have cut 
a very poor figure among thefe Acridophagi, 
unlefs Heaven, together with the tafte of the 
Greeks, had beftowed upon me a different 
conftitutlon. 
Oa the 3d of January wx, at length, de- 
parted, and, leaving behind us that chain of 
mountains called Bruyntjes-Hoogte^ we per-' 
ceived 
