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"
It
is
,
"
said
he
,
"
as
if
a
nation
had
built
Mount
Everest
,
the
highest
mountain
of
the
Himalaya
chain
.
"
At
this
moment
the
storm
burst
with
a
violence
unknown
in
temperate
latitudes
.
It
was
providential
that
Dick
Sand
and
his
companions
had
found
this
refuge
!
In
fact
,
the
rain
did
not
fall
in
distinct
drops
,
but
in
streams
of
various
thickness
.
Sometimes
it
was
a
compact
mass
forming
a
sheet
of
water
,
like
a
cataract
,
a
Niagara
.
Imagine
an
aerial
basin
,
containing
a
whole
sea
,
being
upset
.
Under
such
showers
the
ground
was
hollowed
out
,
the
plains
were
changed
to
lakes
,
the
streams
to
torrents
,
the
rivers
,
overflowing
,
inundated
vast
territories
.
In
temperate
zones
the
violence
of
the
storms
decreases
according
to
their
duration
;
but
in
Africa
,
however
heavy
they
are
,
they
continue
for
several
entire
days
.
How
can
so
much
electricity
be
collected
in
the
clouds
?
How
can
such
quantities
of
vapor
be
accumulated
?
It
is
very
difficult
to
comprehend
this
.
However
,
such
are
the
facts
,
and
one
might
suppose
himself
transported
to
the
extraordinary
epochs
of
the
diluvian
period
.
Fortunately
,
the
ant-cone
,
with
its
thick
walls
,
was
perfectly
impervious
.
A
beaver
's
hut
,
of
well-beaten
earth
,
could
not
have
been
more
water-tight
.
A
torrent
could
have
passed
over
it
without
a
single
drop
of
water
filtering
through
its
pores
.
As
soon
as
Dick
Sand
and
his
companions
had
taken
possession
of
the
cone
they
occupied
themselves
in
examining
its
interior
arrangement
.
The
lantern
was
lighted
,
and
the
ant-hill
was
sufficiently
illuminated
.
This
cone
,
which
measured
twelve
feet
in
height
inside
,
was
eleven
feet
wide
,
except
in
its
upper
part
,
which
rounded
in
the
form
of
a
sugar
loaf
.
Everywhere
the
walls
were
about
one
foot
in
thickness
,
and
there
was
a
distance
between
the
stories
of
cells
which
adorned
them
.
We
may
be
astonished
at
the
construction
of
such
monuments
,
due
to
these
industrious
swarms
of
insects
,
but
it
is
true
that
they
are
frequently
found
in
the
interior
of
Africa
.
Smeathman
,
a
Dutch
traveler
of
the
last
century
,
with
four
of
his
companions
,
occupied
the
top
of
one
of
these
cones
.
In
the
Lounde
,
Livingstone
observed
several
of
these
ant-hills
,
built
of
reddish
clay
,
and
attaining
a
height
of
fifteen
and
twenty
feet
.
Lieutenant
Cameron
has
many
a
time
mistaken
for
a
camp
these
collections
of
cones
which
dotted
the
plain
in
N'yangwe
.
He
has
even
stopped
at
the
foot
of
great
edifices
,
not
more
than
twenty
feet
high
,
but
composed
of
forty
or
fifty
enormous
rounded
cones
,
flanked
with
bell-towers
like
the
dome
of
a
cathedral
,
such
as
Southern
Africa
possesses
.
To
what
species
of
ant
was
due
,
then
,
the
prodigious
style
of
architecture
of
these
cones
?
"
To
the
warlike
termite
,
"
Cousin
Benedict
had
replied
,
without
hesitating
,
as
soon
as
he
had
recognized
the
nature
of
the
materials
employed
in
their
construction
.
