CHAP. XIX. 
LOCUSTS AND WILD HONEY. 
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about the whole night wherever the locusts were 
thickest. 
The next day the locusts would again take wing; but 
where this family had been walking about all night 
you saw acres and acres of ground covered with swarms 
of disabled locusts that could not fly away; and the 
natives would collect them and bring them home in 
baskets; they would then break off the wings, pinch 
off the tail-end of the body and pull off the head, and 
with it withdraw the inside of the locust; thus the 
body and legs only remained, the inside of the body 
being covered with fat. 
This portion of the locust was then spread open 
upon mats in the sun to dry, and when dry packed 
away in huts raised from the ground, and built on 
purpose. These people received a very good ration of 
food—and the necessaries of life were exceedingly cheap 
at the Cape in those days—yet this family preferred the 
bread made from these locusts to any other description 
of food. Their mode of manipulation was as follows : 
A basket full of the dried locusts would be taken 
from the store, and one of the women would sit down 
on the ground by a flat stone, and with another round 
stone in her two hands would grind or reduce the 
locusts to flour, and therewith make thick cakes and 
bake them on the coals or in the ashes, and eat this 
locust-bread with wild honey. 
