-> Hostile Forces 



whole row of the tickets on my heaps of zoological 

 preparations and that in a single ni<jht ! --causing me 



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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 wile of a 

 district-bailiff known to me was almost killed by ants 



sonu; years ago. ( )n hearing her screams, the blacks 

 snatched her out ol bed, tore oil her nightdress, and, 

 by rolling her in the grass, treed the unfortunate 

 lady Irom the rapacious insects, which had bitten by 

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



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

 warning cry of the caravan-leaders, thus advising the 

 carriers who follow them of the tracer of the lare driver- 



