And Hundreds
Carried Eggs To The Consul, More Or Less, And The Consul Paid Them
The Price, And In Less Than Three Days The Treasure Chest Of The
Consul Was Exhausted.
And then he cried, 'Desist, O Tangerines!
perhaps we have destroyed the ayana, perhaps we have destroyed them
all.' Ha!
Ha! Look around you, and beneath you, and above you,
and tell me whether the consul has destroyed the ayana. Oh,
powerful is the ayana! More powerful than the consul, more
powerful than the sultan and all his armies."
It will be as well to observe here, that within a week from this
time all the locusts had disappeared, no one knew how, only a few
stragglers remained. But for this providential deliverance, the
fields and gardens in the vicinity of Tangier would have been
totally devastated. These insects were of an immense size, and of
a loathly aspect.
We now passed over the see to the opposite side, where stand the
huts of the guardians. Here a species of lane presents itself,
which descends to the sea-shore; it is deep and precipitous, and
resembles a gully or ravine. The banks on either side are covered
with the tree which bears the prickly fig, called in Moorish,
Kermous del Inde. There is something wild and grotesque in the
appearance of this tree or plant, for I know not which to call it.
Its stem, though frequently of the thickness of a man's body, has
no head, but divides itself, at a short distance from the ground,
into many crooked branches, which shoot in all directions, and bear
green and uncouth leaves, about half an inch in thickness, and
which, if they resemble anything, present the appearance of the
fore fins of a seal, and consist of multitudinous fibres.
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