JUNGLE PEACE 



no great buttresses or masses of parasitic 

 growths, it held up its branches and twigs in 

 full sunlight a hundred feet or more above the 

 ground. And its twiggy fingers were laden 

 with a wonderful harvest of fruit, uncounted 

 berries which attracted the birds from distant 

 roosts and drinking places. 



Here, then, a thousand combinations of fate 

 had led me, and here I suffered day by day. 

 Bound to the earth like other normal men, my 

 eyes should have been directed forward. Now 

 I forced them upward for hours at a time, and 

 all the muscles of neck and shoulders revolted. 

 Then eyestrain and headache and a touch of 

 fever followed, and I cast about for means to 

 ameliorate my bodily ills. I dragged a canvas 

 steamer chair to my place of vigil and all my 

 body was grateful. 



In memory, there now remain only the high 

 lights of new discoveries, the colorful moments 

 of unalloyed realization of success. Neverthe- 

 less this new method of tropical work brought 

 its own new delights and trials. One joy lay 

 in the very difficulties to be overcome. Every 

 sense came into play. Sight, first and foremost, 

 had been put to the most severe of tests in at- 



