Show THE PLAGUE OF AFRICA terrible de devastation through the alighting of EL a cloud of locusts Locus its the awful cloud black in 1 its center on account of the density gray toward its borders and scintillating on the ado si where thesues the suns rays fell was advancing straight tow tov ard the oasis in another moment I 1 guessed the terrible reality says hilarion ilarion II michel in the it wa was 3 an in invasion of locusts bringing ravage and fai famine nine noise is the only antidote for this thib evil the purpose being to frighten the locusts A 0 and indescribable tu tault now pervaded pervade the city it va a 0 terrible coref confusion aslon of sounds caused by tile the screams of men women and children and the clashing of pieces of iron and the firing of guns g uns from froin our standpoint we could witness part of thy the beene the people were in their gar g ar den 3 gathered around the palm cices tices and no one was to bo be seen boon idle the men and boy boys each with a tin till pot hanging hangin upon ulon his bade bach climbed tho the palms ith astonishing rapidity and sat bat upon tho the top branches es but vainly did they e haust haubt their lung foree force and tin the benl enl Y of their arms the awful irreparable disaster fell upon the city it was ruin for three thre quarters of the population and a sub subsequent famine for all during in e cag 1 ight ht houie locusts mined upon tile the p bilms alms and upon all that was green the trees were loaded with swarms of them the soil was covered and even in the streets street the ped estrain could scarcely carcea Carce 1 ay void avoid crushing somo some at every st aap p evening evenin came enveloped in a deep gloom g loom of wee wco and drove homo home the di i arcs ed and despondent people tho sun eun rose with bright brig 13 lit sparkling 1 1 rays sho showing the inhabitants tho the axt extent bent of their misfortune the first sight tva waa tile the present aspect a of the lofty and graceful graef lil palms the leaf stalks denuded of the f fringed C borders raised their points point like spindles the green dates choso whoso N hose stalla had been devoured v acre ere over oscr the ground the soil which was wa previously ou ly c covered with lucern and gaid gaiden g aiden n Ic mcg tables was now bare as a tro trodden iden A road all verdure not too tou tough gh f r tile the teeth of the insect had been annihilated the desolation was complete and famine certain for the products of the soil aro are the prin principal cical eal resource of those little clusters of life lost in the depths of the desert |