But they are of a noble nature: for they will not begin; and you may stand by them, if you do not tread upon them nor disturb them.

[How these Coddia's come to sting so terribly.] The reason their bite is thus terribly painful is this; Formerly these Ants went to ask a Wife of the Noya, a venomous and noble kind of Snake; and because they had such an high spirit to dare to offer to be related to such a generous creature, they had this vertue bestowed upon them, that they should sting after this manner.

And if they had obtained a Wife of the Noya, they should have had the priviledg to have stung full as bad as he.

This is a currant Fable among the Chingulays.

Tho undoubtedly they chiefly regard the wisedom that is concealed under this, and the rest of their Fables.
[These Ants a very mischievous sort.] There is a sixth sort called Vaeos.