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Some account of new Holland

a white Cocatoe in their Possession which very bird we lookd upon to be one of the waryest of them all
[Margin note]  Insects
Of insects here were but few sorts & among them only the Ants were troublesome to us  Musquetos indeed were in some places tolerably plentyfull but it was our good fortune never to stay any time in such places & where we did to meet with very few  the ants however made ample amends for the want of them  2 sorts in particular  one green as a leaf & living upon trees where he built his nest  in size between that of a mans head & his fist  by bending the leaves together & glueing them with a whiteish papery substance which held them firmly together  in doing this their mangement was most curious I have seen they bend down 4 leaves broader than a mans hand & place them in such a direction as they chose  in doing of which a much larger force was is necessary than these animals seem caple of  Many thousands indeed are employd in the Joint work  I have seen them holding down such a leaf  as many as could stand by one another each drawing down with all his might while others within were employd to fasten the glue how they had bent it down

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