Story of the Strange and Unpleasant Experience of an English Vessel.
    When a vessel recently arrived in Liverpool with a cargo of logwood, everybody on board, from captain down to cook rushed frantically ashore, as through pursued by some unseen enemy. As a matter of fact, the vessel was literally swarming with hordes of hungry Jamaica ants, says a London witness.
    The little pests had invaded the lockers and dived headlong into the sugar barrels. After finishing the contents of these, they proceeded to bore holes through the supply of hardtack, and ate everything before them, until it was feared that the stock of provisions on board would run short. There was a cessation from the attack, when the vessel was caught in a West India hurricane which flooded the cabin and drenched everything below. It was supposed that the intruders had all drowned, but after the storm had passed away they began again with renewed energy.
    The captain who commands the vessel stated that there are millions of the insects still on board, and he thought that the cargo must have come from the vicinity of ant hills for which Jamaica is noted. He stated that the ants were in all parts of the vessel, and that in all his experience at sea he had never before met with an attack like the newcomers waged against him.
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