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An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies

PART I
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In many places of the Land there are so many of these holes, that Cattle are ready to break their Legs as they go.

These do not sting.
A fifth is the Coddia.

This Ant is of an excellent bright black, and as large as any of the former.

They dwell always in the ground; and their usual practice is, to be travelling in great multitudes, but I do not know where they are going, nor what their business is; but they pass and repass some forwards and some backwards in great hast, seemingly as full of employment as People that pass along the Streets.

These Ants will bite desperately, as bad as if a man were burnt with a coal of fire.


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