IMMENSE CLOUDS OF Locr7sTs
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M RocheL in the narrative of his journey a
long the eastern coast of the Red Sea- bears IRE
lIragaole testimony tothe authenticity of the Mosi
ac record, and other passages in HOLY Scripture


wherein it is said that "the land was dh,rkened >
oy these nsects-Exod K. Is; call The trees and
| (Dedt xviii, 42) &c. And again in the nro
phecy of Joel iii 25,) in which they are set down
as a. part OF My great army !" corresponding


with Fsalm eV.34, /" He spake, and the locusts


came, and caterpilars, and that without number u


AT noon we saw dark and exceedingly dense
cloud arise, about three miles distant It appear


ed to De nearly a league between two and three


rn1ies) In length; its density Increased every in


slant, and, as it grew thicker and difused itself


more widely, It involved the horizon in total dark


ness L imagined The cloud to herald dreadful
tempest and went up to the king of shoa lin


Abyssinia,) for the purpose of stating nv appre-


nens'ohs to him, batlhe laughed at my alarm and


told me that the cause of it was nothing more than


an immense cloud of locusts, and we should readi-


ly rid ourselves of them by crushing Them under
our horses hoofs by thousands I am free 10 con.
fess that had some difficulty in getting rid of
my fear, and did not place much reliance on his
majesty Sable Salasse's explication for the low
moan and dismal confused: murinur which are
the customary precursors of a Storm were suffi
clently audible at the moment. In another In
slant the matchlocks of the troops assaiIed the


mysterious cloud; an innumerable host of Iocusls
Tell to the ground on all sides; SO dense was the
mass that we could not see each o.her at ten steps
distance. We were beset by this living fog for
whole hour; hence you may form some idea of
the millions which had collected together. l re-
collected having seen locuss in Egypt, and ex
!ensive flights of them also at Tujurra vet, what
have previously observed had but tended to make
me more scepical as to the reports travellers had
made Of the migration Of this insect; now, how
ever, could doubt no longer. 1 was, as it were,
an eyewitness of the dreadful plague which Mo,
ses had called down on the land Of Pharaoh.