SLAVE-MAKING ANTS. 19 



dead, and two others cannot long survive. 

 The legs and antennae and mutilated bodies 

 of the dead warriors are strewn about, ev- 

 ery fragment showing conspicuously on the 

 white marble. Out of the twenty, fourteen 

 are dead and two nearly lifeless only four 

 have survived. I put some drops of water 

 and moistened sugar under the glass for the 

 surviving heroes : two find tbe water and. 

 driuk. I now repair to the battle-field. The 

 struggle is over: not a black to be seen, but 

 a column of the red invaders is emerging 

 from a large cavity that leads to the numer- 

 ous galleries and underground chambers of 

 these industrious blacks, and each invader 

 is carrying a larva or pupa. I follow the 

 column, wbich is from four to five inches in 

 width, to the nest of reel ants before men- 

 tioned. There is a wide opening in the side 

 of this nest, down which they all disappear 

 and leave their burdens, and again start for 

 more plunder. All day long these powerful 

 marauders are engaged in this work. They 

 carry a larva or pupa carefully, and drop it 

 on beiog disturbed. But what does this 

 mean? Every little while a red warrior 

 comes out with a black bundle, which he 

 carries as carefully as he does the pupa or 

 larva. I stop him to inquire into the mat- 



