Locusts in great numbers infest some of the provinces; but the people do not allow them to pass without paying a heavy tribute, and eat them as one of their chief luxuries, dressed in fat.  They fly about two or three feet from the ground.  As soon as they appear, men, women, and children rush out--the men catch them in sheets, the women and children pick them from the ground, and then shake them in sacks till the wings and legs are knocked off.  The lighter parts are then winnowed away, and the bodies are dried in the sun and sold in the markets.