Show A locust story shir ship by DEAD LOCUSTS at length the wind shifted to the southeast and chenin then to the south with a suffocating heat beat this bearg the sirocco of the tile levant and lind blowing ino ing over the great labian and deserts comes charged with hot and sulphurous vapors causing a most disagreeable sensation of a stifling arid and oppressive kind oil on the third day after the shift of the wind and when we derew il up abreast of sicily but nearer to the african shore we were surprised one morning at seeing hil rii ril all the headmost vessels of the fleet arrested I 1 in 11 their course by fo some pome me object which impeded the tile progress pro pre gress press of each ship as she came up with it until the entire convoy for formed an almos almost t straight t lin on looking over lle ile the lie slips side there was seen a thick massof mas of brown water which it was diali cult to sail through with all the canvass spread it appearing to he between the consistency of or oil under or melted butter and honey buckets full of it were drawn upon deck for inspection but all ali I 1 I 1 we could perceive was that I 1 il was some animal matter in a state ol 01 decay and emitting a it most disagreeable odor sending the buckets I 1 deeper ani and deeper bo however wever by attaching weights to their bottom sous sobs to bring up some of the lower strata strati we perceived the legs wings and half putrid bodies bodus of brown locusts in a less advanced state of decomposition than the brown broin oily mass of the surface and we concluded of or course that the whole mass was composed of tle the same materia mate mater rid lil desirous of ascertaining the extent of the space occupied by it I 1 went to the tho fore top mast cross trees with a glass and sweeping the horizon ahead and on each fach side of us I 1 perceived that it extended as far as the eve eye could reach to the east north and south which abic h presented one solid and unbroken mass of smooth brown surface while to the west the open opan sea fea presented the deep blue which distinguishes the waters of 0 the medi mediterranean terra nean the conclusion was that this vast flight of locusts passing from africa to europe had bad encounter encountered d a contrary arv kind wind vind in their passage and arid had fallen exhausted into the tile sea and were there gradually decay decaN decaying inc Inz in the state in which we found them such flights of locusts have from time to time been recorded in history as marking the devastation every where caused by their numbers in the year a famine was caused in turkey and persia by their consumption of the fruits and grain of the fields in syria and mesopotamia were overrun by them in immense in swarms of them took their fl flight 91 it from the eastern regions into inlo the west wept with such a sound found aliat jha iha hes illey hey might be bi mit aitken ken for birds ti dei des troyed all vf k tibie s nit hit lyring oti oil either elther bark of 0 trees or tile the th itch of houses houser an and they devoured ih the P corn so r rapidly I 1 ily lly MS its to destroy on gorn porn one bundred hundred and forty n acres c es lri lil in ili a 2 day y their thir daily dalls pr progress gress wis was about lw eive elve miles and their ofir appear 1 ear to anve I 1 ave been regulated tv 6 king kings I 1 s or leader leaders sallo who flew fi firt arzt mid and ettlel ett led on fhe the spot which was lo 10 be the tile next day at the same fourby nou r by th the legion their movements m in always commencing com con at sunrise after fr aversing the llie continent of europe tey i frere u ere driven nt at list last into tile the baltie baltic sea set where being thrown lack laek on the shore they caused a drea dren dreadful drui pestilence resilience by their in ili MI 1271 all the corn torn fields armind milan were de i bi lorns ts in ili 1339 nil all those of lorn lom brav a and rid in fit 1541 such iner incredible edible hosts of them afflicted Valla chii ehli and moldavia mold vla via that they darkened the tire sun run by their number hind mid ritva ged all nil tild ilia fruits of the tiie earth jib Js jig silk au autobiography |