CHAPTER XIL 
CONTAINING 
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF ANJENGO; 
AND THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE COAST OF MALABAR. 
1772. 
Learn from the birds what food the thickets jield ; 
Learn from the beasts the physic of the field : 
Thy arts of building from the bee receive 3 
Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave 3 
Learn of the little nautilus to sail. 
Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. 
Here subterranean works and cities see 5 
There towns aereal on the waving tree. 
Learn each small people’s genius, policies, 
The ant’s republic, and the realm of bees ; 
How those in common all their wealth bestow. 
And anarchy without confusion know 5 
And these for ever, though a monarch reign. 
Their separate cells and properties maintain. 
Mark what unvaried laws preserve each state. 
Laws, wise as Nature, and as fix’d as Fate. 
Pope, 
