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their teeth ; others deposited them under 
the thick bushes. When the danger was 
entirely gone by, they brought them 
back into the city, and barricaded the 
gates, near which they posted themselves 
in great number to guard the entrance. 
All was calm, however, in the mixed 
ant-hill; the Amazons had entered quiet- 
ly their abode, and had been received 
by the auxiliary ants as the real pro- 
prietors. 
Immediately after, the Legionaries again 
departed, and proceeded towards a Miner 
ant-hill of considerable extent, consider- 
ing themselves in sufficient force to cope 
with the guardians of that habitation: 
they threw themselves en masse upon 
one of the galleries indifferently guarded; 
but their number not permitting them to 
enter all at once, the Mining Ants that 
were without, immediately precipitated 
themselves upon the invaders: and whilst 
they were engaged in desperate combat, 
their fellow-citizens in considerable num- 
ber, losing, perhaps, every hope of 
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