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hunt. The big red Warriors have won ; the little 

 yellow Turfites have been repulsed and defeated 

 with great slaughter. The victors are at present 

 engaged in carrying captured cocoons to their own 

 nests ; there the pupae will hatch out shortly into 

 willing slaves, and, never having known any other 

 condition, will take it for granted that the natural 

 post for small yellow ants is to clean and forage 

 and catch food for big red ones. 



Our own Warrior Ants are slave-holders which 



NO. 4. A SLAVE-HUNT J CONQUERORS CARRYING OFF THE 

 COCOONS OF THE ENEMY. 



still retain some power of working and acting for 

 themselves ; but there are other species in which 

 the " peculiar institution " has produced its usual 

 degrading result by rendering the slave-owner in- 

 capable and degenerate, a mere fighting do-nothing. 

 Among the Amazon ants, which are very confirmed 

 slave-makers, Sir John Lubbock found that a great 

 lady, left alone without slaves, in the presence of 

 food, did not even know how to feed herself ; she 

 was positively starving to death in the midst of 



