April.] 
MERIBOHWHEY. 
165 
We intimated to them that, after the interpreter 
was ready, we should tell them the word of God. 
In the mean time we took a short walk, during- 
which we witnessed two or three vast collections 
of expiring insects, like those we had before seen. 
All such as had been able to thrust their heads 
into soft parts of the ground appeared in better 
health, and likely to recover the effects of the 
deluge; and hundreds had succeeded, but all the 
others were dead or dying.* 
On returning to the waggons, I found a great 
number of people surrounding them, some of 
whom soon filled the tent, and others sat down 
in front of it ; when I stated to them the outlines 
of what is revealed in the word of God. They 
seemed to listen with attention. 
About noon, a party of Marootzee men, on 
their way to Lattakoo, arrived at Meribohwhey. 
One had a large piece of metal resembling silver, 
in the shape of a heart, hanging from his right 
ear, and another wore four rings of the same 
* Their bellies were of a dull yellow, their six legs of the 
same colour, and shaped like those of the butterfly ; the back 
and upper half of the head were brown ; the fore half of the 
head, the two horns and two feelers yellow. Their large wings, 
like those of the flying ant, were of a dark drab colour, and 
four in number ; only two are noticed when folded, but in mo- 
tion they arc easily distinguished. 
