Narrative of a Journey Round the World During the Years 1841 And 1842 volume 1
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We could neither eat, nor write, nor read, our hands being constantly em- ployed in repelling or slaughtering our small but power- ful enemies. The Canadians vented their curses on the old maid, who had the credit of having brought this scourge upon earth, by praying for something to fill up the hopeless leisure of her single blessedness ; and, if the tiny tormentors would but confine themselves to nunneries and monasteries, the world might see some- thing more like the fitness of things in the... matter. Wherever the soil was composed of clay, we had noticed large holes at the roots of trees, which had ROUND THE WORLD. 127 literally been eaten out by the wild sheep. These animals use argillaceous earth as a medicine, just as the dog nibbles grass and the fowl swallows gravel; and probably their instinct teaches them that, in the situa- tions in question, the vegetable fibres, something in the nature of yest, render the stuff both softer and lighter. About nine in the morning, Peechee brought Berland to us, who had been prevented, as he said, by illness, but, as we suspected, by laziness, from going forward to the Bow River.
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