258 HISTORY OF 
column, it is an undisciplined horde. 
The Amazons run: after each other with 
rapidity, and the last comers from the 
stormed city are followed by some few 
of its inhabitants, who endeavour to 
wrest from them their prize; an effort in 
which it but rarely happens they are 
successful. 
I return to the garrison to be once 
more a witness of the reception given to 
these plunderers by the Ash-coloured 
Ants, with whom they dwell. I observe a 
considerable number of pupze heaped up 
before the door; each Amazon on its 
arrival deposits its burthen, and then 
returns to the invaded ant-hill ; — their 
auxiliaries suspend their labours in ma- 
sonry, and come forward to the pupae, 
which they carry one by one into the 
interior. ‘The Negroes are also frequently 
seen to unload the Amazons, after having 
amicably touched them with their an- 
tennee, when the latter yield to them, 
without opposition, the pup they have 
purloined. 
