THE CHEGOE. 
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travels towards New South Wales, at the king's 
expense; having been convicted, at the York as- 
sizes, of an overweening inclination for his neigh- 
bour's mutton, to which he had helped himself most 
abundantly. 
NOTES ON THE HABITS OF THE CHEGOE 
OF GUIANA, BETTER KNOWN BY THE 
NAME OF JIGGER; AND INSTANCES OF 
ITS EFFECTS ON MAN AND DOGS. 
. " Priore relicta 
Sede, novis domibus habitant, vivuntque receptae." Ovm Met, 
Leaving their former haunts, beneath the skin 
They form new settlements, and thrive within. 
This apparently insignificant insect far outdoes the 
bug in the exercise of its noxious qualities. The 
bug attacks you in an open manner, makes a hearty 
meal, and then retires to enjoy it : but the chegoe 
commences its operations upon you so gently, that 
they are scarcely felt ; and it terminates them in a 
way that calls for your most serious attention. In 
a word, it approaches you with such insinuating 
address, that you absolutely feel a kind of gratifi- 
cation at the very time that it is adopting measures 
which will infallibly end in your certain torment. 
Soon after the chegoe has entered your skin, you 
experience a pleasant itching kind of sensation, by 
which you begin to suspect that all is not right ; 
