196 JUNGLE ISLAND 



The Edge of the Jungle, written by William Beebe 

 about South American jungle. 



The oldest and best known book on Central 

 American jungle is The Naturalist in Nicaragua, 

 written years ago by an English mining engineer, 

 Thomas Belt. It is both interesting and truthful, 

 and nothing better can be said of a book. Most 

 naturalists still quote from it, as I have done. 



If you like pirates as well as jungle life, you will 

 never find a more exciting pirate tale than that 

 of Morgan and his raids across the Isthmus after 

 Spanish gold, and the stories of Sir Francis Drake 

 are almost as thrilling. 



Pirates of Panama was written by John Esque- 

 meling, who was with Morgan himself. Two 

 other books that are a little easier to read are 

 The Boy's Book of Buccaneers, by Eric Wood, and 

 The Real Story of the Pirate, by A. Hyatt Verrill. 

 All three are well illustrated, as they deserve to be. 



