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fore with a like calamity. He also states in another place 133 that while 
in latitude 14° 40', and about 500 leagues from Barbadoes, a sailor took 
up a live grasshopper from the forecastle of the ship and brought it to 
him, assuring him it had fallen upon the vessel. This species he named 
Locusta maxima cinereo purpurea, maculis brunnis. He describes it as 
being two inches long to the end of the body, and two and a half to the 
tips of the wings (elytra), of an ash, inclining to a red or purple color, 
with many brown spots on them. He remarks that Vanderhagen noticed 
a similar occurrence in his voyage, 134 but without mentioning the dis- 
tance from land. But this latter writer says that on his return to Helena 
he observed many red and whitish locusts swimming in the water and 
that some also flew upon the ship. He also quotes from Cadamosto a 
statement in reference to the abundance of locusts in Senegal. 135 
Andrew Sparrman 136 says that — 
Sometimes the locusts also afford a delicious treat to the more barbarous and remote 
tribes of the Hottentots, when, as at times happens after an interval of eight, ten, 
fifteen, or twenty years, they make their appearance in incredible numbers. At these 
times they come from the north, migrating to the southward, and do not suffer them- 
selves to be hindered by any obstacles, but even if they happen to reach the sea, fly 
boldly on and are drowned in it. 
The account of these as seen in the Canary Islands, quoted by Bev. 
T.H.Gallaudet 137 evidently commingles the statements of Sir Hans Sloane 
and Beauplan, relating to widely separated regions. Near the Cape of 
Good Hope, in Kaffir-land, swarms of locusts often destroy every green 
thing. 138 
Near Galam, in Senegal, in the year 1698, M. Brui encountered on his 
voyage an air-darkening swarm of locusts which was two full hours in 
passing, until the south wind began to blow, and drove them into the 
desert. Captain Stibbs had a similar experience near Barrahonda, on 
his voyage on the Zambia. 139 
As will be seen from the following brief notices, other parts of America, 
as well as the Western United States, have their locust pests, though not 
to the same extent as the Eastern Continent. 
Edward Temple 140 speaks of the devastations of locusts about Buenos 
Ayres, where they devoured not only fruits and vegetables, but even 
large trees. He met with them at Cordova in immense numbers, but 
does not give direction of flight. 141 Speaking of the destruction of a 
field of tobacco-plants he compares the horde when spread over the field 
to a " brown mantle," indicating the color. 
133 Vol.l, p. 29. 
m Excerpt. Clus-cur. 
136 See also the quotation from Sir Hans Sloane's account in Gentleman's Magazine, vol. 18, Aug., 1748, 
pp. 362, et seg. 
ae "Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope," Transl, I, p. 263. 
"'Scripture Biography for the Young.— Moses, vol. i, p. 114. 
138 Brace, Miscellen aus der neuesten auslandischen Literatur, 1834. Heft. 10, p. 107.— Keferstein. 
139 "Labat, Kelatde l'Afrique Occidental^ " II, p. 176.— Hugh Murray, Hist. Occ. of Africa, I, pp. 1M 
and 238.— Ritter. 
140 Travels in various parts of Peru, I, p. 104. 
"'See, also, Froreip, Notizen der Natur- und Heilkundc, vol. 28, p. 136.— Keferstein 
