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Updated: May 9, 2025
We find, too, tales of famine, of locust-swarms, of little victories over the barbarians, which do not arrest wholesale defeat: but we find through all St.
They usually begin their march, or flight, after sunrise, and encamp at sunset and woe betide the luckless farmer on whose lands they chance to fix their temporary abode. Locust-swarms are followed by a little bird named springkaan-vogel or locust-bird which comes in such dense flocks as almost to darken the air.
But the locust-swarms that devour the land are the money-eaters, the petty despots, the bribe-takers, the men who wring gold out of infamy, who traffic in tyrannies, who plunder under official seals, who curse Algiers with avarice, with fraud, with routine, with the hell-spawn of civilization. It is the 'Bureaucracy, as your tongue phrases it, that is the spoiler and the oppressor of the soil.
They had laid his vines waste, and barked his fig-tree, and made its branches white; and all drunkards were howling and lamenting, for the wine crop was utterly destroyed: and all other crops, it seems likewise; the corn was wasted, the olives destroyed; the seed was rotten under the clods, the granaries empty, the barns broken down, for the corn was withered; the vine and fig, pomegranate, palm, and apple, were all gone; the green grass was all gone; the beasts groaned, the herds were perplexed, because they had no pasture; the flocks of sheep were desolate. There seems to have been a dry season also, to make matters worse; for Joel says the rivers of waters were dried up likely enough, if then, as now, it is the dry seasons which bring the locust-swarms.
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