The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . ating are theflies, which keep ones hands constantly employed, and in order to have a meal in peace,a boy must be kept continually employed in driving them away. Cockroaches areswarming in most houses, canoes, and vessels, and often disturb one during the night, not ?20 THE COUXTRIES OF THE WORLD. alone by running over ones body, but attacking it in right earnest. Some fine butterfliesand beetles are met with; and at dark the woods begin to swarm with myriads of
The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . ating are theflies, which keep ones hands constantly employed, and in order to have a meal in peace,a boy must be kept continually employed in driving them away. Cockroaches areswarming in most houses, canoes, and vessels, and often disturb one during the night, not ?20 THE COUXTRIES OF THE WORLD. alone by running over ones body, but attacking it in right earnest. Some fine butterfliesand beetles are met with; and at dark the woods begin to swarm with myriads of leaf and stick insects can scarcely be distinguished from real leaves. Some large kindsof spiders, amongst them a stinging one, have to be noticed. Centipedes nearly a footlong were frequently encountered by us in the woods; and scorpions are more abundantthan one could wish. Among sea-worms, the curious palolo, which makes its annualappearance in the New Hebrides usually about the 25th of November, in such quantitiesthat the sea looks like one solid mass of annelids, is another peculiar product of the THE KAGV (EhinocJidus juhatiis) OF NEW It is eagerly eaten by the natives of the Fijis, Samoa, Tonga, and the New Hebrides.*Last of all, and with it this brief sketch will close, the beche-de-mer, or sea-slug, aspecies of Holut/inria, is extensively collected among the Pacific islands as an article ofcommerce. In external appearance, even when fresh, it is not pretty, but when split anddried for the Chinese market it is about as unappetising an article from which to makesoups as could well be imagined. In Fiji, they are procured from the reefs at low water,or are obtained by diving in from two to three fathoms, especially in a locality on thenorth side of Yanua Levu, to which to this day many vessels from America and the Australiancolonies resort, in order to buy this unsightly delicacy from the Fijian fishers. In the * Races of JIankind, Vol.
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