326 IN THE GUIANA FOREST 



If the result is nil, what good can the winner do 

 to the community? The world is the better 

 because some men have lived, but surely not for 

 the sportsman. In Nature's plan there appears 

 to be no room for the luxurious idler ; he is a 

 degenerate. We can only therefore conclude that 

 he will in the end be eliminated as unfit. 



