KIDNAPPING ANTS AND THEIR SLAVES 



They are completely "naturalized." Their privileges 

 and general treatment are precisely those of their cap- 

 tors. Their state is substantially that which would 

 have resulted had they been reared in the home of their 

 birth instead of their adoption. If one would seek a 

 human analogy for their condition, it is not to be found 

 in that of the war-captives of ancient times sold into 

 individual bondage, or of the chattel slaves of recent 

 days. We find it rather in the state of those who were 

 transplanted in mass to chosen sites, and established 

 therein by conquerors ambitious to found great cities 

 like Alexandria and Caesarea Philippi. These expa- 

 triated captives were endowed with the i^rivileges of 



\ SLAVE-M AKEK RETUHNINU KKU.M A KAIU CAKKYING AN ANTLlNCi, 

 AND WITH A SEVERED HEAD CLINGING TO A LEG 



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