The great thorn bush under which the scorpion killed the beetle was quite a landmark in the wide expanse of rolling veld some forty miles south of Kissidougou in the south-western corner of French Guinea.

在法属几内亚西南角基西杜古南约 40 英里的广阔草原上，蝎子杀死甲虫的大荆棘个地标。