

PUBLISHER'S NOTE. 



To the original edition of this work the late Mr. 

 Grant Allen contributed an Introduction. It 

 would seem fitting in this second edition to 

 recall his concluding words : 



" It is too often the fault of tropical travellers 

 that they care a great deal for skins and horns 

 and feathers, but little or nothing for leaves, 

 fruits, and flowers. This is a sad mistake, for the 

 vast majority of living things, after all, are plants 

 or trees, while the animals are everywhere in a 

 miserable minority. This error Mr. Rodway, 

 whom I take to be above all things essentially 

 a botanist, has successfully avoided. It is the 

 woodland he paints, not merely the sport in it. 

 He gives us a faithful picture of that ever-present 

 reality, the forest itself, as well as of the beasts, 

 and birds, and reptiles, and insects that haunt it 

 or burrow in it. This ever-present reality, which 

 too often becomes a mere background in the 



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