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Sand
.
"
In
Africa
,
"
replied
Cousin
Benedict
;
"
in
the
central
and
southern
provinces
.
Africa
is
,
in
fact
,
the
country
of
ants
.
You
should
read
what
Livingstone
says
of
them
in
the
last
notes
reported
by
Stanley
.
More
fortunate
than
myself
,
the
doctor
has
witnessed
a
Homeric
battle
,
joined
between
an
army
of
black
ants
and
an
army
of
red
ants
.
The
latter
,
which
are
called
'd
rivers
,
'
and
which
the
natives
name
sirafous
,
were
victorious
.
"
The
others
,
the
'
tchoungous
,
'
took
flight
,
carrying
their
eggs
and
their
young
,
not
without
having
bravely
defended
themselves
.
Never
,
according
to
Livingstone
,
never
was
the
spirit
of
battle
carried
farther
,
either
among
men
or
beasts
!
With
their
tenacious
jaws
,
which
tear
out
the
piece
,
these
sirafous
make
the
bravest
man
recoil
.
The
largest
animals
--
even
lions
and
elephants
--
flee
before
them
.
"
Nothing
stops
them
;
neither
trees
,
which
they
climb
to
the
summit
,
nor
streams
,
which
they
cross
by
making
a
suspension
bridge
of
their
own
bodies
,
hooked
together
.
And
numerous
!
Another
African
traveler
--
Du
Chaillu
--
has
seen
a
column
of
these
ants
defile
past
him
for
twelve
hours
without
stopping
on
the
road
.
But
why
be
astonished
at
the
sight
of
such
myriads
?
The
fecundity
of
these
insects
is
surprising
;
and
,
to
return
to
our
fighting
termites
,
it
has
been
proved
that
a
female
deposits
as
much
as
sixty
thousand
eggs
in
a
day
!
Besides
,
these
newroptera
furnish
the
natives
with
a
juicy
food
.
Broiled
ants
,
my
friends
;
I
know
of
nothing
better
in
the
world
!
"
"
Have
you
then
eaten
them
,
Mr.
Benedict
?
"
asked
Hercules
.
"
Never
,
"
replied
the
wise
professor
;
"
but
I
shall
eat
some
.
"
"
Where
?
"
"
Here
.
"
"
Here
;
we
are
not
in
Africa
!
"
said
Tom
,
very
quickly
.
"
No
,
no
!
"
replied
Cousin
Benedict
;
"
and
,
thus
far
,
these
warlike
termites
,
and
their
villages
of
ant-hills
,
have
only
been
observed
on
the
African
Continent
.
Ah
!
such
travelers
.
They
do
not
know
how
to
see
!
Well
!
all
the
better
,
after
all
.
I
have
discovered
a
tsetse
in
America
.
