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both of the horde and of my camp, fet them-» 
felves to fearch in every quarter^ Yet, notwith- 
{landing the unremitted ardour of their fcru-» 
tiny, they could not meet with a fecond bu- 
preftis : though they procured me an immenfe 
quantity of other infeds, and more than two 
hundred chryfalides of different fpecies, which - 
coft me many pipes of tobacco ; for, being de- 
firous of encouraging their refearches, I paid 
with Uberality more than the objeds were 
worth. 
I intended to take my chryfalides with me, to 
wait for their metamorphofis on the road. 
But, not with {landing all my care, the journey 
fo fatigued them, that more than three fourths 
died before 1 returned to the Cape. Such as 
remained ahve appeared very vigorous : but, 
being obliged to depart for Europe, I was com- 
pelled to leave them. I imagine them to have 
been of the number of thofe which take up a 
whole year for their transformation. 
It is commonly known in Europe, that ca- 
terpillars there are not venomous. At leail, 
fuch is the aflertion of all the naturalifts who 
have written on them. And, though fome of 
the hairy kinds occafion itchings, experience 
has 
