uſually fills up and ſecures their holes from the entrance of the ants. Yet having myſelf removed that impediment, by clearing away the dung, and putting a few ants to the hole, on going to the place ſome time after, I have ſeen them collected in great numbers, all buſily employed carrying away in their mouths pieces of the borer, whom they had ferretted out of its hole and killed.
Centipedes, called by the Engliſh "Forty legs," and ſcorpions, are numerous in this iſland, efpecially in the woods, and in old houſes. Of the former are often ſeen ſome that will meaſure eight or nine inches in length, and thick in proportion; but the generality of them do not exceed three inches long. They are very harmleſs, except when meddled with; neither then is their bite, or the ſting of the ſcorpion of this country, ſo dangerous, as in many other Weſt India iflands.
