AFRICAN BEE-HIVE. 139 



THE DIVIDING HIVE 



Is made in two equal parts, similar to a common 

 chamber hive divided vertically. Narrow slats are 

 fastened at intervals on the open sides of each of 

 the parts, and are temporarily attached together in 

 the same position by means of hooks. 



When both of the sides are full of bees and comb 

 they are separated, and empty, parts of the same 

 size attached to each of the full ones. This plan 

 has succeeded in some instances, but much oftener 

 has resulted in failure. 



PALACE. 



Palaces and apartments capable of holding hund- 

 reds and even thousands of pounds of combs and 

 honey have often been tried, but owing to causes 

 previously shown, they have mostly resulted in fail- 

 ure. 



" In these forests (Loanda) we first encountered 

 the artificial bee-hives so commonly met with all the 

 way from this to Angola. They consist of about five 

 feet of the bark of a tree fifteen or eighteen inches 

 in diameter. Two incisions are made right round 

 the tree at points five feet apart, then one longitu- 

 dinal slit from one of these to the other ; the work- 



* Dr. Livingstone's Travels and Researches in South Africa, 

 January, 1854. 



