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Millar’s poixt. 
much used by buffaloes, we came upon a large sable 
sacred-beetle busily employed, like Sisyphus, in 
rolling uj)-hill earthen balls containing his little 
ones, wliich, as often as not, when pushed along 
with his crooked legs nearly to the top of the bank, 
came rolling down aocain. 
On^he third day we proceeded to Millai's Point 
along the coast, and the special object of our 
mission "w^as (start not, gentle reader ! ) — carrion- 
beetles ! We pursued an uneven course up sand- 
hills and down sand-dales until we espied a huge 
boulder rock covered with the trailing stems and 
fleshy leaves of the yellow Mesembryanthemum or 
Fig-Marigold. The green carpet was torn off from 
the surface of the stone, when out ran the rove- 
beetles, large-eyed, burrowing, and broad-bodied. 
At the same time the little pale scoqiions dropped 
down, while the nimble yellow centipedes vanished 
mysteriously, with that unpleasant wriggling move- 
ment peculiai’ to hundred-legs and snakes. 
About two miles to the left of Simon’s Tovm 
w^e crossed a plain wdicre the grass struggled for 
