CHAP. I.] 
WHITE ANT TOWERS. 
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with a hollow socket, bound with iguana-skin ; this 
served for either tobacco-box, club, or dagger. Through¬ 
out the whole of this marshy country it is curious 
to observe the number of white ant-hills standing 
above the water in the marshes : these Babel towers 
save their inmates from the deluge ; working during 
the dry season, the white ants carry their hills to so 
STARVING BOY OF KYTCH TRIBE BEGGING. 
great a height (about ten feet), that they can live 
securely in the upper stories during the floods. The 
whole day we are beset by crowds of starving people, 
bringing small gourd-shells to receive the expected 
corn. The people of this tribe are mere apes, trusting 
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