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Updated: May 5, 2025
These creatures are annually robbed of their eggs in millions. They have many enemies, but man is the chief. When a turtle hatching-place is discovered, the Indians assemble, and as soon as all the eggs have been deposited, they uncover and collect them. They eat them but that is not the principal use to which they are put. It is for the making of oil, or "tortoise-butter," they are collected.
It was a scene without parallel in the history of the world this phantasmagoria of grubs and butterflies, met together for auld lang syne in their beloved hatching-place.
The Stock Exchange of Johannesburg is their hatching-place and hot-bed; but from there they overflow freely among the seaside towns, and are usually to be found in the big hotels and the places you would be most likely to go to. Cape Town at the present moment is flooded with them. But these are only the mere froth of the South African Colonial breed.
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