...Waldo chuckled with intense inward satisfaction as the old hen had done—she, over the insects and the warmth; he, over the old brick walls, and the haze, and the little bushes... 
(AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner 「The Story of an African Farm」
...The lower mandible, as thin as a paper-knife, is put into the water while the bird skims along the surface, and scoops up any little insects it meets...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...There are remarkably few small animals, they having been hunted almost to extermination, and few insects except ants, which abound in considerable number and variety...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
... Insects are very numerous after the rains commence...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
... As it was a most interesting hunt which I instituted for the several specimens of the insects, I here append the record of it for what it is worth...
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
...Here and there, though, you will see a thatched house, its thatch coveredwith creeping plants, and inhabited by colonies of creeping insects...
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
...Flocks of buzzards and the beautiful varieties of fly-catchers thronged to the dense smoke to prey upon the innumerable insects that endeavored to escape from the approaching fire...
Samuel White Baker 「In the Heart of Africa」
...The people collect these insects by night, and boil them into thick cakes, to be eaten as a relish...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
... Never have I seen anything like the plague of these insects, but the nurses assured me that at the laager itself they were far worse, attracted, doubtless, by the cattle, horses, and food-stuffs...
Lady Sarah Wilson 「South African Memories」
...The insects in or at thenectar could not be separated, and hence have been made an essentialpart of their diet...
David Livingstone 「The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873」
...The sun was just warming, and the bees and insects were filling the air with their sleepy droning sounds...
Stewart Edward White 「African Camp Fires」
...Let one of the other insects stray within reach and their piety was quickly enough abandoned! One beetle about three-eighths of an inch across was oblong in shape and of pure glittering gold...
Stewart Edward White 「African Camp Fires」
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