338 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF 
I was a witness to several such scenes, 
but shall content myself with describing 
ene only. I established a Sanguine com- 
pound ant-hill in a glazed apparatus, 
such as that described in the preceding 
chapter. This I one day placed at a 
little distance from a Negro dwelling, 
which soon became the object of a regular 
siege. After the Sanguine Ants had 
driven away its inhabitants, and conveyed 
to their glazed habitation or ruche, a 
part of the pup, they came to a sud- 
den decision of changing their domicile, 
and in a few hours removed the whole of 
its contents, and established themselves 
with their auxiliaries in the enemy’s 
habitation. They do not, however, 
change their-abode on each invasion of a 
Negro. ant-hill; but it is of rare occur- 
rence if they quit not in the course of the 
year the.one they occupy. 
One of the principal features of the 
wars levied upon Ash-coloured Ants, 
seems to. consist in exciting fear ; and so 
effectual does this prove, that the Negro 
