Of course the first thing to do was to make a grand survey of the country she was going to travel through.`It's something very like learning geography,' thought Alice, as she stood on tiptoe in hopes of being able to see a little further. `Principal rivers - There are none. Principal mountains - I'm on the only one, but I don't think it's got any name. Principal towns - why, what are those creatures, making honey down there? They can't be bees- nobody ever saw bees a mile off, you know -' and for some time she stood silent, watching one of them that was bustling about among the flowers, poking it's proboscis into them,` just as if it was a regular bee,' thought Alice.
However, this was anything but a regular bee: in fact...