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in the woods, which at night present an appearance of 
the most interesting description. They sometimes 
light on a house in such numbers, as to make it ap¬ 
pear in a blaze. Flacourt was returning home one 
evening, and was alarmed at seeing his dwelling co¬ 
vered with these insects, believing that it was on fire. 
Toads, frogs, pismires, and weevils, the latter of 
which destroy the rice, are found in abundance in 
their respective haunts. 
There are four species of silk-worms, all of them 
quadrupeds. The first ( Landeve ,), produces a single 
cod, like those of Europe, except that they have little 
spines; the second, ( Lande-saraha ), form a large 
cod, which sometimes contains five hundred small 
ones ; the third, ( Lande-anacau ), deposits its pod on 
a species of cypress-tree, near the sea-side : these cods 
hang in strings, and the silk is of the finest quality. 
The fourth sort, ( Landemntaque ), make their cods 
also single, which are of a quality equal to the last 
mentioned. It is very remarkable, that formerly the 
natives of St. Mary’s isle used to eat the silk-worm 
in the chrysalis state, and throw away the silk. 
The tenants of the waters next claim our attention. 
Of these the sea produces whales, porpoises, bonetus, 
stock-fish, sea-unicorns, (nar-whale), rays, doradoes, 
soles, herrings, mackerel, turtle, oysters of a large size, 
cockles, pilchards, sea-paroquets, flying-fish, muscles 
very large and fine-flavoured, mullets, congers, eels, 
(spotted with black, but not eatable), and a large va¬ 
riety of other fish, of exquisite flavour. 
