[186] Amoreux, 242.
[187] Philos. Trans. i. 201.
[188] Hawkesworth's Cook, iii. 223.
[189] Stedman, ii. 94.
[190] Bingley, iii. 385, first edit.
[191] Knox's Ceylon, 24.
[192] Stedman, ii. 142.
[193] Ulloa's Voy. i. 61, 62. Dr. Clarke's Travels, i. 486. Amoreux, 197. Mr. W. S. MacLeay relates to me that soon after his arrival at the Havana he was stung by an immense scorpion, but was agreeably surprised to find the pain considerably less than the sting of a wasp, and of incomparably shorter duration.
[194] Andrews's Anecdotes, 427. See on the subject of Scorpions Amoreux, 41-54. 176-205.
[195] Fab. Suppl. 294. 2.