OLD ROADS TO A NEW ISLAND 19 



means in English ''red clay," from the color of 

 the soil. We have called it Jungle Island. No 

 animals are to be hunted there, nor any trees cut, 

 and people are invited to come and find how ani- 

 mals really grow and behave in a tropical forest. 



The Indians who mined the gold, the Spanish 

 explorers who came hunting it, and the English 

 pirates who followed them, the Forty-niners who 

 opened the old roads again, the French who tried 

 to build the Canal, and the Americans who 

 succeeded — these were the people who had made 

 the paths that led me to Barro Colorado in the 

 winter of 1924. 



This little book tells about Jungle Island and 

 some of the animals I found there. The brave old 

 explorers would be surprised and amused at such 

 a strange winter's work; but then they never 

 knew how interesting tropical animals can be. 



