BRAZILIAN MOSQUITOES.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — I am pleased with the letter signed "Edmund Venables " in the Spectator of September 9th, confirming my anecdote of "the mosquito having its tail cut off and still continuing eating." It is so funny, and a little sad, to write things for the English public which are as common as possible in far-away lands, and still not to be believed because they do not happen in this climate. Your reviewer also disbelieved my account of the "Hajar el HableI3," or "Pregnant Stone," which I said was 70 ft. long, 14 ft. 2 in. high, and 13 ft. 11 in. broad ; and yet it is a thing which all pilgrims to Syria go to see. I can excuse that, because my typewriter put an extra "0" to my 1,100 tons' weight, and I had no time for a revise. You will excuse my mentioning these trifles, because nobody likes their veracity to be doubted, though it may make them smile. I do not enjoy it as much as my husband did. He taught me whenever I was about to write, not to consider "what they will say in England," but "what the people • who have lived there, and know the facts, may think ;" and that prevents anything like invention or
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