A NATURALIST IN BRAZIL 



sight, the longing for unfettered natural beauty, the nostalgia for 

 the bygone age when man lived among the beasts as a child of 

 Nature. For he was once encompassed about with an inexhaustible 

 wealth of living forms, which, in his moments of inspiration, he 

 explained in sagas and folk-tales. And these sagas, these long-vanished 

 but not extinct experiences, wake to life when beside the dark 

 waters of a forest stream we see, huge as a weathered tree-trunk, 

 primeval of aspect, the dragon of the ancient world, the crocodile. 



