.xiv^uiiub uiiuer ttie trees, and often are scattered about for 
many rods. Any of tliese spines is strong enough to pierce through 
a CO whid^ boot-leg j/ inH when it reaches dfefleish you are gone. 
The retror\e barbs /Cause ft to continue entering the mWe you strug . . _ 
gle. The oest thmg to do\is to break if/ off at once 
and let the Vest fester and mine away \yith the pus. \ Gr EmG’"* P/w’.^RS 
‘‘Almost a^cruel are thVbushes of an acacia, appropriately called 
“cats’s claws,\/that crowd in tfre^^tr'kil, and reach their slender limbs 
across the way, armed every half inch with pairs of strong, recurved 
thorns, that tap your veins unawares, and cause you to add drops of . 
blood to thf- 
