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in the jungle, however blank and monotonous it may 

 seem to be. The trouble is that so much of your atten- 

 tion in these places must be devoted to the trivial duties 

 of the day, the eternal question of food, the care of 

 the sick, the precautions against floods, and so on, that 

 but little time is left over for studying the hidden wonders 

 of the world about you. The geographers and the 

 naturalists of the future wdll live in comfortable ships ^ 

 on the coast, whence they wdll fly daily into the heart 

 of New Guinea where they will find things undreamt 

 of now. But the time for that is not yet, and in the 

 meantime those who plod on foot do the best they can. 



