Note 7 — Chapter XVII · THE LOCUSTS: THEIR FUNCTION; THEIR ORGAN OF SOUND
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
One thing alone makes me hesitate: the direct consumption of the Locust. As regards indirect consumption, under the form of Partridge, young Turkey and others, none will think of denying him his praises. Is direct consumption then so unpleasant? That was not the opinion of Omar,7 the mighty caliph, the destroyer of the library of Alexandria. His stomach was as rude as his intellect; and, by his own account, he would have relished a basket of Grasshoppers.