L1V. 

 OTHEK INHABITANTS OF THE FOKEST. 



>U must not suppose that the tropical 

 forest is solely occupied by the animal 

 world. 



It has other inhabitants, who find a 

 home within its extensive bounds. Here and 

 there, a small portion of it is cleared, and a settler 

 builds a little wooden house, and has a plantation 

 of coffee or of cocoa. 



Some of these wooden dwellings are very pic- 

 turesque, and are covered with roses and jessa- 

 mine, and shaded with fruit-trees. But the life 

 of the white man, even though surrounded by the 



