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of their association with the Amazons: 
brought up ina strange nation, not only do’ 
they live sociably with their captors,. but 
bestow the greatest care upon their larvee 
and pupe, their males and females, and 
even evince the same regard for them, 
transporting them from one part of the 
ant-hill to another, going in search. of 
provisions for them, building their: ha- 
bitation ; forming, as occasion requires, 
new galleries, and fulfilling the duties 
of sentinels, by guarding the exterior of 
their common abode, not once suspeet- 
img that they live with those very in- 
sects who have expatriated them. 
Whilst the Negro Ants are thus en 
gaged, the Amazons tranquilly wait at 
the bottom of their subterranean abode, 
the hour of departure, reserving their 
strength, their courage, and the tactie 
they so well know how to put in use, for 
the purpose of bringing in, from some 
neighbouring ant-hill, hundreds of larve, 
which they confide to those in charge of 
the household establishment; these, in 
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