Clear and audible orders were issued, and the assault renewed.

It was as hard to sleep in that hut as in the trenches before Sebastopol.

The white ant, being a vegetable feeder, devours articles of vegetable origin only, and leather, which, by tanning, is imbued with a vegetable flavour.

"A man may be rich to-day and poor to-morrow, from the ravages of white ants," said a Portuguese merchant.

"If he gets sick, and unable to look after his goods, his slaves neglect them, and they are soon destroyed by these insects." The reddish ant, in the west called drivers, crossed our path daily, in solid columns an inch wide, and never did the pugnacity of either man or beast exceed theirs.