THE ANT. 



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BRAZIL. 



attempted, by lighting fires, by shouts, and by waving 

 branches, to ward off the attack. When the locusts alighted 

 they were more numerous than the leaves in the field, and 

 the surface became reddish instead of green. Locusts are not 

 an uncommon pest in this country ; already, during this sea- 

 son, several smaller swarms had come up from the south, 

 where, as apparently in all other parts of the world, th'ey are 

 bred in the deserts. 



THE ANT. 



A SMALL dark -colored ant sometimes migrates in great 

 numbers. One day, at Bahia, my attention was drawn by 

 observing many spiders, cockroaches, and other insects, and 

 some lizards, rushing in the greatest agitation across a bare 



AN ARMY OF ANTS. 



