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and taking in fresh, water 'and fuel. In the woods of this isle they 
found a tree, the leaves of which, as soon as they fall on the ground 
move from place to place, as if they were alive. They resemble 
mulberry-leaves, and on the sides of them there are certain fibres pro¬ 
duced, that seem like little eggs. If they are cut or broken, there is 
nothing like blood comes forth; but if they are touched they suddenly 
spring away.” 
Dr. John Harris, F.K.S., who includes this narrative 
in his collection of voyages, informs us that Pigafetta 
kept one of these leaf animals in a dish for eight days. 
The learned compiler considers it advisable to add as a 
note:— 
“ This account is not only improbable, but incredible; yet I have 
retained it, because, on the credit of Pigafetta, it has been taken into 
several treatises of natural history.” ( Harris’s Travels, vol. i. 
p. 116, ed. 1764.) 
The beetle, only too well known in modern kitchens 
by the name of Cockroach, is an importation 
Cockroach. ^ Qm y^est I n di es# Captain John Smith, 
in his history of the Bermudas, or Summer Islands, 1622, 
mentions this insect under its native name :— 
“ The musketas or flies are very busie, with a certaine Indian bugge 
called by the Spaniards, a cacaroatch, which creeping into chests by 
their ill sented dung defile all, besides their eating.” ( Purchas , vol. iv. 
p. 1801.) 
The word bug , it is scarcely necessary to note, was in 
older times, as it still is in America, the name given to 
beetles of all kinds. Harrison calls the dor-beetle a 
turd-bug, and Topsell speaks of humble-bees or shorn- 
bugs. 
Muffett mentions several species of Beetle : the great 
stag beetle; the long-horned beetle or goat- 
chafer ; the dung beetle or sharn-bugg, which 
he describes as a round cat-faced beetle ; the oil beetle; 
the great water beetle; the tree beetle or dorr, and 
