MORE BOOKS 



The little clearing around our camp only nicked 

 the edge of the jungle. This little book only 

 peeps over into the lives of the animals we saw 

 there. I cannot think of anything for you to do 

 that would be more fun than to grow up and 

 some day sail down there to the Canal to find 

 out for yourself more about the island. Waiting 

 for you on Barro Colorado are all kinds of inter- 

 esting things that no one has seen or heard or 

 understood. 



And while you are growing up, you may like 

 to be reading more about the jungle and its plants 

 and animals. Here is a list of books written by 

 people who have been in the jungle and really 

 know what they are telling about. 



One book is Ants, written by William Morton 

 Wheeler. It is a thick book with many pictures 

 and it tells all about ants all over the world. It 

 is the kind of book you will read a few pages at 

 a time, pausing between readings to think about 

 what you have read. 



Reptiles of the World, by R. X. Ditmars, has 

 stories and pictures of snakes and lizards and the 

 like. It is a rather new book. 



I do not know any writings that give you the 

 feeling of the jungle so well as Jungle Peace and 



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