Henry Bates Quotes (2 Quotes)

The species has no sting, and does not display active resistance when interfered with. I once imagined they exercised a sort of superintendence over the others but this function is entirely unnecessary in a community where all work with a precision and regularity resembling the subordinate parts of a piece of machinery.

It is, perhaps, not generally known that the Portuguese, as early as 1710, had a fair knowledge of the Amazons but the information gathered by their Government, from various expeditions undertaken on a grand scale, was long withheld from the rest of the world, through the jealous policy which ruled in their colonial affairs.