294 TlMEHRI. 
On Friday morning we drove along the right bank of the Canje. 
At an abandoned plantation, called Speculation, now planted in patches 
with provisions, we found decided marks of depredation by locusts- 
The inse£ts, which were chiefly males were in a sickly condition. Maize 
and cassava were the plants which had suffered most. The maize 
plants presented quite a withered aspect, the mid rib of the leaves being 
alone left ; while the cassava, which had also been stripped of their 
leaves were crowned by a rosette of young leaves which had since 
sprouted. We were informed that this destruction of the cassava 
leaves quite spoiled the roots for food, owing to the absence of the 
starch, and that this condition was rendered still worse by the re- 
growth of the young leaves. 
The road through this district of abandoned estates is surrounded on 
both sides by a second growth of indigenous plants with patches of 
ground provisions and plantains, and though the locusts had done great 
damage in the district, yet it was not unusual to find, interspersed 
among the woods and grass, patches of cassava and maize which had 
escaped injury. At Bachelor's Adventure we met an intelligent African 
who gave a very minute description of the appearance of the insects, of 
their pairing, and of the egg deposition in soft pegassy land from which 
he had turned them up in quantities. 
Arrived at Port Mourant shipping house, at Vrieden Vriend Schap, 
where the watchman has a very fine and isolated provision garden, we 
could find no traces of locusts ; nor did we meet with any in the course 
of our ride along the shipping canal right through to the sea margin on 
the Corentyne Coast. 
On Saturday we rode about the plantation and made enquiries as to 
the visitation of the locust to the Coast districts. We were told that 
they were to be found at Good Hope, higher up the coast, and on to 
Skeldon ; but, from specimens brought us by Dr. Massiah from Good 
Hope, it turned out that the locusts of that district were of a different 
kind and of a much greater size. They are common in these districts 
and they had previously been seen by one of us (Mr. Russell) in various 
stages of development along the sandy lands embracing the mouth of 
the Corentyne River ; and, from what we have been able to learn, 
these insects feed upon forest trees and cocoanut palms. We were not 
able to ascertain that they attacked the provisions. Mr. Reid, in a 
recent letter to the Daily Chronicle, evidently alludes to this same in- 
sect, and it might be well to verify what is stated of its habits. 
On Sunday we returned to the Canje, and with the estate's launch 
