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HOMES WITHOUT HANDS. 



their track. Tliey have been known to destroy even the agile 

 monkey, when their swarming host had once made a lodgment 

 on its body, and when they enter a pigstye, they soon kill the 

 imprisoned inhabitants, whose tough hides cannot protect them 

 from the . teeth of the Driver Ants. Fowls they destroy in 

 numbers, killing in a single night all the inhabitants of the hen- 

 roost, and having destroyed them, have a curious method of 

 devouring them. 



DRITKB ANTS. 



The £ev. Dr. Savage, who has experimented upon these for- 

 midable insects, killed a fowl and gave it to the Ants. At first, 

 they did not seem to pay much attention to it, but he soon foimd 

 that they were in reality making their preparations. Large 

 parties of the insects were detached for the purpose of preparing 



