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TROPICAL WILD LIFE IN BRITLSH GUL\NA 



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 FIG. 30. MACUSHI INDIAN ON HIS SHOOTING PLATFORM, WAITING FOR GAME. 



At ])rcsent we know almost nothing of it. Up to now 

 gravitation and tree-trunks swarming with terrible ants 

 have kept us at bay, and of the tree-top life we have obtained 

 only uneonnected facts and specimens. For the most part 

 my glasses showed forms silhouetted in black against the 

 bright sky beyond. I could fire upward and with a heavily 

 loaded choke bore usually bring down the bird I desired. 



