LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



For there, where nothing had shown a moment before, 



appeared a vision of spotted black and gold . Frontispiece 



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 The outlying huts and houses on the Demerara dropped 



away 27 



Indians of the Guiana Bush 27 



Through this palm-strewn paradise 31 



A native thatched hut 37 



Most practical dress for the tropics 43 



Native-bred jaguar hounds 47 



We grouped ourselves about Ranjettan 47 



A deadly labaria snake, six feet in length .... 55 



Our curial on the Essequibo 55 



John Charley and red deer fawn 61 



Three peccaries of the Guiana Bush 67 



Jack Haley and our hounds in the savannah country . . 79 



Jack pulled up and stood upright on his horse's back in 



order to get a better view 87 



At the edge of the savannah 91 



The cattle-killer had paid his debt many lives had he asked 



now he had paid with his own . . .... 95 



The jaguar (Felis onca) is the largest of all the spotted 



cats .... 99 



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