FOBEIGN BEES. 
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guide lost his horse, and many of the people were 
much stung about the hands and face." On the 
eastern side of the same continent, the bees appear 
to resemble those of the western coast in their colour 
and diminutive size, but differ from them in the mode 
of constructing their nests, which are formed under 
the surface of the ground, while those of the others 
are lodged in the hollows of trees. To the south- 
ward, and in the Hottentot countries, the insects are 
found in great numbers ; but, as appears from the 
reports of some late travellers, never build their nests 
in the trunks of trees; and though they we some- 
times found nestling under the surface of the ground, 
make their dwellings chiefly in the clefts of the 
rocks ; and one large rock in the Cape Colony has 
so long served as a favourite residence to these in- 
sects, as to obtain from the Dutch settlers the name 
of “ Honing Kliss,” i, e. Honey-rock. The following 
anecdotes relating to this species are from Burchell’s 
Travels in Africa, (Vol. I. 377j and II. 81) : — “ My 
bedding having been left out in the air nil day, we 
found in the evening the mattress taken possession 
of by a swarm of bees which had taken shelter under 
it for the night; and as a favour to these industrious 
creatures, we left them undisturbed. They remained 
there till the next day at noon, when they departed 
in quest of some convenient chink in the rocks for 
their hive. Their manner of swarming appeared to 
us to differ in nothing from that of the common 
English bee. The same species, or others of the 
genus Apis, abounds in every part of this continent 
