- Hostile Forces 



whole ro\v of the tickets on my heaps of zoological 

 preparations and that in a single night ! causing me 

 much loss and vexation. 



Nocturnal attacks of ants are very disagreeable. 

 They occasionally attack the sleeper in his tent, 

 gnawing through the mosquito-nets. The wife of a 

 district-bailiff known to me was almost killed bv ants 



MY CARRIERS 



some years ago. On hearing her screams, the blacks 

 snatched her out of bed, tore off her nightdress, and, 

 by rolling her in the orrass, freed the unfortunate 



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lady from the rapacious insects, which had bitten by 

 thousands into her head and, indeed, her whole body. 



" Siafu ! " So, on the march, sounds frequently the 

 warning cry of the caravan-leaders, thus advising the 

 carriers who follow them of the traces of the large driver- 



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