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JUNGLE ISLAND 



The marmosets are orange-colored, as gay as 

 any jungle bird. In the forest they travel sociably 

 in groups of about half a dozen. They can leap 

 several feet from one tree to another. 



We never found any deer, although we saw 

 their tracks on the island and I heard stories of 



Fig. 76. A fawn 



their having been hunted there. My men brought 

 me some venison from a deer they had killed on 

 the mainland. In an animal store in Colon we 



