Williams says: “The insect food (of the Chinese) is confined to Locusts and Grasshoppers, Ground-grubs and Silk-worms; the latter are fried to a crisp when cooked.”[422] Dampier says in the Bashee (Philippine) Islands, Locusts are eaten as a regular food. The natives catch them in small nets, when they come to devour their potato-vines, and parch them over the fire in an earthen pan. When thus prepared the legs and wings fall off, and the heads and backs, which before were brownish, turn red like boiled shrimps. Dampier once ate of this dish, and says he liked it well enough. When their bodies were full they were moist to the palate, but their heads cracked in his teeth.[423] Ovalle states that in the pampas of Chili, bread is made of Locusts and of Mosquitos.[424] According to Mr. Jules Remy, our Western Indians eat in great quantities what are generally there called _Crickets_, the _Œdipoda corallipes_.[425] In the southern parts of France, M. Latrielle informs us, the children are very fond of the fleshy thighs of Locusts.[426] The Arabs believe the Locusts have a government among themselves similar to that of the bees and ants; and when “Sultan Jeraad,” King of the Locusts, rises, the whole mass follow him, and not a solitary straggler is left behind to witness the devastation. Mr. Jackson himself evidently believed this from the manner he has narrated it.[427] An Arab once asserted to this gentleman, that he himself had seen the great “Sultan Jeraad,” and described his lordship as being larger and more beautifully colored than the ordinary Locust.[428] Capt. Riley also mentions that each flight of Locusts is said to have a king which directs its movements with great regularity.[429] The Chinese believe the same, and affirm that this leader is the largest individual of the whole swarm.[430] Benjamin Bullifant, in his observations on the Natural History of New England, says: “The Locusts have a kind of regimental discipline, and as it were commanders, which show greater and more splendid wings than the common ones, and arise first when pursued by fowls, or the feet of a traveler, as I have often seriously remarked.”[431] The truth, however, is found in the Bible. They have no king.[432] The Saharawans, or Arabs of the desert, “whose hands are against every man,”[433] and who rejoice in the evil that befalls other nations, when they behold the clouds of Locusts proceeding toward the north are filled with the greatest gladness, anticipating a general mortality, which they call _El-khere_, the good, or the benediction; for, when Barbary is thus laid waste, they emerge from their arid recesses in the desert and pitch their tents in the desolated plains.[434]