Not only do the _carnivora_ greedily devour them, but also animals and birds of the game kind--such as antelopes, partridges, guinea-fowls, bustards, and, strange to say, the giant of all--the huge elephant--will travel for miles to overtake a migration of locusts! Domestic fowls, sheep, horses, and dogs, devour them with equal greediness.

Still another strange fact--the locusts eat one another! If any one of them gets hurt, so as to impede his progress, the others immediately turn upon him and eat him up! The Bushmen and other native races of Africa submit the locusts to a process of cookery before eating them; and during the whole evening Swartboy had been engaged in preparing the bagful which he had collected.

He "cooked" them thus:-- He first boiled, or rather _steamed_ them, for only a small quantity of water was put into the pot.

This process lasted two hours.

They were then taken out, and allowed to dry; and after that shaken about in a pan, until all the legs and wings were broken off from the bodies.