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CHAPTER VII. . 
FIRST HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE AMAZON 
ANTS. 
We have hitherto treated only of 
labouring ants, of societies composed of 
three sorts of individuals, of operations 
equally divided among the labourers, and 
of transient wars, without any fixed pur- 
pose, or having only for their object 
common defence. The Amazon Ants 
present us manners and habits totally 
different, — republics peculiarly consti- 
tuted and organised, — character dissi- 
milar, — wars regularly instituted, — in 
a word, a separate history; and of which 
no author has yet given any account. 
On the 17th June, 1804, whilst walk- 
