16 THE IMAGE OF WAR 



The first is that on those subjects I have had a good 

 deal — some may think too much — to say in other 

 books. The second is that it was not my purpose 

 when I began to speak of the great primaeval forests, 

 which may still be fairly classed as unexplored by 

 man. My object has been to write of the jungle as 

 it interweaves itself with our daily life in one of our 

 principal tropical possessions. 



