i j 4 Mr. smeatij m an’s Account of 
With thefe materials they completely line moft of the roads 
leading from their nefts into the various parts of the country, 
and travel out and home with the u&nqft fecurity in all kinds 
of weather. If they meet a rock or any other obftruciion, they 
will make their way upon the furface ; and for that purpofe eredt 
a covered way or arch, fHli of the fame materials, continuing it 
with many windings and ramifications through large groves ; 
having, where it is poffible, fubterranean pipes running parallel 
with them, into which they fink and fave themfelves, if their 
'galleries above ground are deffroyed by any violence, or the 
tread of men or animals alarms them. When one chances by 
accident to enter any folitary grove, where the ground is pretty 
well covered with their arched galleries, they give the alarm by 
loud hidings, which we hear diftindlly at every flep we make ; 
foon after which we may examine their galleries in vain for the 
infects, but find little holes, juft large enough for them, by 
which they have made their efcape into their fubterraneous roads. 
Thefe galleries are large enough for them to pafs and repafs 
fo as to prevent any (toppages (though there are always 
numerous pafiengers) and ihelter them equally from light and 
£C met with who has been attacked while living by the white Ants.” I have fome 
doubt, that, although the approaches of the Termites were carried up to his bed, 
the bites he received were from real Ants , of which there are fome fcarce 
-vifible which are very numerous and produce great pain ; whereas the bite of 
the Termes lets out much blood, and thews not the lead: fymptom of venom. 
See du tertre’s Antilles, vol. II. p, 344. andDefcript. de 1 ’Afrique, par labat, 
tom. III. p. 298. 
(3 2 ) See sloane, ligon, linnjEUs (Termes Fatalis), forskal (Termes Arda), 
and the various voyages to Africa and both Indies. 
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