Show snakes fight to tho the death ono one of the jungle secreta Is tho the ca cause use of deadly enmity that exists bo tween the and the black snake 0 E Af malsbury alsbury engineer in charge of land surveys nt at panama describes a tight he saw between two of at these while cutting a trench along the edge of at a swamp hla his machete men ran across a whose head was sticking out of a pile of leaves one at 0 the men cut the head oft and pulled the body out to see why tho the snake had not made an effort to get away ralf halt way down the body was a black wake make colled coiled and biting savagely the blacksnake blacks nako nalto was driven off but re near came open open and bit savagely atthe dead lomiga owing to Us its peculiar actions no effort was waa made to kill the blacksnake but the men continued their cutting for nn an hour or so BO longer then they hey returned to the spot and found the body of the tom lea en folded by that of the blacksnake blacks blacke nako nake which also was dead it had been bitten about midway between head and tall and its body was swollen it was concluded that the to miga had st octet t by biting the blacke blacksnake nake which got hold of its enemy before it could coll coil again tor for another attack |