Capitolo 34
the prophet that has said Joel, "The field is wasted, the earth's mourneth; for the
corn is wasted: new wine has dried on, the oil languisheth.... The
earth witnesses as the garden of Eden them, and behind them a desolate
wild region."
Not only it was every devoured green leaf but the a lot of barking you/he/she was skinned
from the trees that they were of white and lifeless relief as skeletons. The
fields were stripped to the earth and the old men of our villages that
you/he/she had given their lives to cultivating these gardens and vineyards, it came
out of the synagogues where they was praying and you/they had groaned, and
looked on the downfall with darkened eyes. Nothing was saved. The bugs, in
their fierce hunger, tried to submerge all in their way. I have
Arabic children and visas, went away to their mothers in the shade of some tree which
faces are been devoured by the swarms of oncoming of locusts first them
cries had been heard. I have seen the carcasses of animals hidden from
perceived by the swaying one, while cover of bugs rustling. And in front of
such threat that the Arabs have been inactive. With their usual fatalism
they accepted the sore of locust as a necessary bad. They was not able
understands because we was so frantic to fight against him. And as a matter of fact,
they really found out a good quantity some locusts, for them they loved to banquet
on the bugs female. They gathered poles of them and they threw them on
coal that burns, then that it squats him around the fire, it devoured they roasted him
bugs with the great taste. I saw a fourteen year-old boy eat so many how much a
one hundred to a session.
I CAPITULATE VIII
LEBANON
During the invasion of locust my brother sent me on a turn of inspection to
you investigate the devastations of the bug in Syria. With an officer
_boyouroulton_ (the passport) in pocket, I was able to travel entirely on
the country without interferes with from the military authorities. ME
it had an excellent opportunity to see that on which was going everywhere. The