What wa the arrival of the locusts like to the people of umuofia

Follow this link and go to paragraph #55,

http://www.wssb.wa.gov/Content/Classrooms/tate/content/freshman/Things%20Fall%20Apart/ch-7.htm

I see the link didn't work. They welcomed the locusts as a good omen. They could catch and eat the locusts. They didn't harm the yams.

they arrived in small swarms these people were called harbingers and they were send to survey the land