THE WHITE ANTS. 



they will be seen as numerous as ever passing both ways along it, 

 and they will again in like manner reconstruct it. But if the 

 same part be destroyed several times successively, they will give 

 up the point and buUd a new covered way in another direction. 

 Nevertheless, if the old one should lead to some favourite source 

 of plunder, they will, after a few days' interval, still reconstruct it, 

 apparently in the hope that the cause of destruction will not again 

 occur, nor wiU they in that case wholly abandon the undertaking 

 unless their habitation itself be destroyed. 



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