The red ants, encumbered with their living booty, left the
unfortunate city in the desolation of its great loss, and resumed
the road to their own habitation, whither their astonished
observer followed them. But how was his astonishment augmented
when at the threshold of the red ants' community, a small
population of black ants came forward to receive the plunder,
welcoming with visible joy these children of their own race,
which would perpetuate it in foreign lands!
This, then, was a mixed city, where the strong warrior ants lived
on a perfectly good understanding with the little blacks. But
what of the latter? Huber soon discovered that they were the
workers of the community. It was they alone who did all the
building. They alone took care of the young red ants and the
captives of their own species. They alone administered the
affairs of the city, provided its supplies of food, and waited
upon their red masters who, like great infant giants, allowed
their little attendants to feed them at the mouth.
The only occupations of the red masters were war, theft, and
kidnaping.
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