. The world of the great forest : how animals, birds, reptiles, insects talk, think, work and live . arried in. In the great catastrophe that had taken place, thebig nchellelays and the pigmy ones were mingledtogether in the ruins. The pigmies had also manydead and wounded. Their presence was the firstintimation that the big nchellelays had of rage knew no bounds at the sight. Officersand workers attacked the intruders with great , however, fought with the utmost bravery, forit was a fight for life with them, and many of the bigones bit the dust in the conflicts that took
. The world of the great forest : how animals, birds, reptiles, insects talk, think, work and live . arried in. In the great catastrophe that had taken place, thebig nchellelays and the pigmy ones were mingledtogether in the ruins. The pigmies had also manydead and wounded. Their presence was the firstintimation that the big nchellelays had of rage knew no bounds at the sight. Officersand workers attacked the intruders with great , however, fought with the utmost bravery, forit was a fight for life with them, and many of the bigones bit the dust in the conflicts that took place. The mode of warfare among the nchellelays is 83 THE WORLD OF THE GREAT FOREST to disembowel one another by piercing their softstomachs with their nippers. The belly is the vul-nerable part of their body, and once pierced they arecrippled, and die soon afterwards. Now the ruins were turned into a great was soon a scene of carnage. While many ofthe big nchellelays were transport-ing the wounded, the young, andthe eggs inside the ruins of theirbuildings, many were busy seeking. the pigmy nchellelays, the intruders within their house,to fight and kill them. Dead and wounded from thenumerous combats lay everywhere. There were manythrilling fights and death-struggles. The attacks onboth sides were fierce, and no one asked were seen fighting one another over thewhole battlefield. Sometimes the fight occurred in avery rugged place where the ruins of the buildings layaround on the top of one another. One nchellelay wasseen ascending the steep incline ready to charge theenemy at the top, who was waiting for his another place, one was descending with great fury toattack his enemy, who was coming up. THE NCHELLELAYS, OR WHITE ANTS Elsewhere, one could see a worker or an officer ofthe larger kind attack his diminutive enemy, andsucceed, after some sparring, in disembowelling him,when suddenly an officer of the pigmy kind, seeingone of hi
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