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TRINIDAD. 
but beyond a slight irritation nothing follows. But 
new-comers are treated with great attention, and so 
sweet is their blood considered that these little blood- 
bibbers know not when to Stop. Cooling medicine is, 
perhaps, the best thing to take to prevent the bites 
from becoming sores. At night everybody sleeps under 
nettings, and without them very little sleep could be 
got. Tliey are, however, more numerous and more 
troublesome at some places and during some seasons 
than others ; but we are never allowed to ignore the 
existence of mosquitos. 
Chigoes are more easily avoided. Only persons who 
are not cleanly in their habits suffer much from these 
insects. The coolies, some of the worst and laziest of 
them, sometimes allow their feet to be so eaten up by 
these little creatures that they are unable to walk, and 
sometimes even a toe has to be cut off. However cleanly 
you may be, a chigoe will sometimes get in your foot, 
which you will soon know by the itching sensation. 
You must just take your penknife and dig out the gen- 
tleman. He is small, sometimes scarcely to be seen, but 
put him under a microscope, and you will see him to be 
something of the make of a flea, and of an amber 
colour. His bayonet must be very sharp to pierce the 
skin of the heel, and so make room for himself. 
Cockroaches, crickets, beetles, grasshoppers, sand-flies, 
gad-flies, wasps, wood-lice, and ants, are too numerous to 
speak of But in Trinidad, insect life is abundant and 
vigorous, and necessitates cleanliness on the part of 
housekeepers. This section might easily have been en- 
larged to a considerable volume, but a few words is all 
my plan will allow me, and though my observations on 
the animal kingdom of Trinidad are few, I hope they will 
not prove uninteresting. 
