same sight and smell as on tlie previous evening. 1 was just 

 about to get into bed when a few Siafu on the net caused me 

 to climb on a chair from whence I could inspect the top of 

 the net and the sight of a couple of hundred Drivers there 

 (which I then imagined had fallen from the ceiling, as the 

 bed-feet had been left standing in basins of water) caused me 

 to modify my arrangements. Accordingly I took up my 

 pillows and blankets and sought refuge in an unoccupied 

 building some three hundred yards away, where I fared little 

 better than at home, as I was awakened at 2 a.m. and pestered 

 by fleas till daybreak at 6 a.m. 



July 5. — Eeturning home, the boys assisted us to carry on 

 similar operations of wholesale destruction as on the pre- 

 ceding day with the additional precaution of putting down 

 hot ashes at their holes. By 9 a.m. they had all retired. 

 The columns had commenced to move again just before dusk; 

 I think it was shortly after 5 p.m. when I first observed them. 

 At dusk therefore I laid down ten baits consisting of large 

 lumps of eagle flesh. At 10 jxm. I visited these, and five, 

 which were quite hidden beneath a host of Siafu, I picked up 

 hurriedly with a pair of entomological forceps and dropped 

 into a basin of water filmed as on the preceding day with oil. 

 We thus destroyed several thousand in a few minutes with 

 the greatest ease. 



I then retired to bed, having had a new mosquito net put 

 up with a much finer mesh in case any of the ants should fall 

 from the ceiling. Despite the fact that the walls and floor 

 were a crawling mass of live ants, I slept in confident security 

 until 2.30 a.m., when I was awakened by the splashing of a 

 crocodile in its pan. Most of my creatures I had moved 

 outside the previous day, but thought that the young croco- 

 diles in their tank could defy Siafu; the tortoises had also 

 been left in their pen, as it was outside, though against, the 

 house. Heroically I decided to rise and go to the rescue 

 despite the ants on the floor. Untucking the net, therefore 

 I stretched forth a hand to turn up the lamp, and encountered 

 an ant on the handle ; then I saw a few ants on my pillow and 

 beheld two single lines moving up the net, one inside and the 

 other outside the net. By turning up the mattress and 



