. My Apingi kingdom: with life in the great Sahara, and sketches of the chase of the ostrich, hyena, &c . saw the same ant go andfetch fresh pieces of the same clay, which came fiomthe structure I had broken. 1 observed that they neverwent outside the cells to get their materials. No masonscould have worked more systematically. But liow could the clay which 1 saw them take drybecome suddenly wet? I took a small reed and ad-vanced it quietly toward some; they made a spring at it(for these ants bites are far worse than the others) andseized it with their nippers, and then threw upon it a lit-tle
. My Apingi kingdom: with life in the great Sahara, and sketches of the chase of the ostrich, hyena, &c . saw the same ant go andfetch fresh pieces of the same clay, which came fiomthe structure I had broken. 1 observed that they neverwent outside the cells to get their materials. No masonscould have worked more systematically. But liow could the clay which 1 saw them take drybecome suddenly wet? I took a small reed and ad-vanced it quietly toward some; they made a spring at it(for these ants bites are far worse than the others) andseized it with their nippers, and then threw upon it a lit-tle whitish, thickish matter, the same stuff that made theclay wet and ready iov building purposes. During theworking time not one of the largest class was in soldiers kept watch, and it was only just before thewall was closed that they retired. I give you, on the following page, a picture of thebuildings of the terines bellicosus, which often readies tlieheight of twenty feet or more, so that you may see thegreat variety there is in the shape of the buildings made MY AllNGI KIM< milLniNC. OY TUE TERMEh liEI r ICOStJS. by the white ants in Africa, according to the different spe-cies. It will sliow you that there is as much diversity intlie lionses of the ants as there is among tliose of differentraces of men. The difference is no greater between anegro hnt and a beautiful stone house, than between theshelter of the white ant living under the bark of trees,and the large structures of the more ingenious architects.
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