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Show TUB JIQOErro JOURNEY, H r-..swii.iv.s-..f.,-to;'''( :mH Around th World. M The very smsll species of the flea, commonly known as the Jlgger.wboso H native home is tropical nnd tubtropl- H cal America, set out In 1872 to clr- H cumnavlgsto the world and has now H half completed Its Journey. Ills ar- H rival In India and Madagascar la ol- H most simultaneously reported On hit ijH conquering wsy be has badly fright- Ltssfl cnod many barbarous tribes by his jH propensity to bore through the skin IH and And lodgment under it, and many lt villages and sometimes whole districts 'LH wero abandoned by the natives dur- H ing his Journey across Africa. In M September, 1872, n sailing vessel from M Brazil dumped n quantity of sand bat- H last on the beach at Ambrli, a little H south ot the Congo. This event ho H historic Importance from the fact that H the Jigger crossed the ocean In this jH sand and It Is hellovod to have been IH his first Introduction to foreign terrl- H tory. Ills rato ot advance across At- H rlca depended upon the mean ot jH transportation at hand, for the Jigger H will not hop when be may ride. It H was thirteen years before be struck the H caravan route to Stanley Pool, and H then ho Journeyed quickly and com- H fortably with the porters In the freight H service to that starting point ot tbo (J upper Congo steamers which carried H him half way across Africa Twenty IH years after bla nrrliol In Africa, tbe jH Jigger appeared on tbo shores ot the 11 Victoria Nyanza and six years later bo H was hopping along the sands of Zan- H tlbar Island Tho Jigger was thus e- H labllshed In 1893 at the busy mart H wbenco many vessels nail for the East H Indies and Oceanlcn. It was predicted H that he would soon Invndo India, and H sure enough his arrival at Bombay, H whltlicr ho had been brought by H coolies returning from Africa, Is now H reported. I-o Tour du Monde says he H may be expected lu Trench Indo-Chl- H na nt any lime und that he will evl- lB dently Invade tho whole nf Southern jS Asia, and letters from Nossl Be, In ME northwest Madagascar, report hla ad- faty vent thero and on the adjoining Is- (Ti lands, where ho Is flourishing and ffM multiplying In the sandy soil Wo rjjl may next expect to hear of this perse- iTY"! vcrlng and successful traveler umonc Jffi tho Pacific Islands, and all regions In- uKn or near tho tropics uccm destined to ty make bis acualntance. Now York jA, Sun. Qjj |
