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TROPICAL WILD LIFE IN BRITISH GUIANA 



Photo by TV. B. 



FIG. 25. JUNGLE FUNGUS. 



persist in walking about, or moving some part of your body 

 or hands. 



Thus it is that, passing in a canoe with noise of paddles, 

 or tramping a trail to the accompaniment of crackling twigs 

 and leaves, it is not strange that the jungle seems deserted, 

 a place of distant, unattached voices or a region of lifeless 

 silence. As well complain of the paucity of bird life in a 

 country which you have just traversed in a swift motor car, 

 or of the lack of botanical knowledge to be gleaned from 

 an aeroplane! When walking in the jungle in single file 

 with a number of people, I have often dropped back and 

 squatted motionless, and less than two minutes after the 

 last figure passed from view, the hidden creatures began to 

 reveal themselves, first vocally, then optically, until normal 



