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OUR SEARCH FOR A WILDERNESS. 



coming more accustomed and trained in detecting these de- 

 ceptions, the puzzles increase, and one becomes suspicious of 

 everything. Every few minutes we are halted by a curled 

 leaf which resembles some great caterpillar, or by a partly 

 decayed fruit which may jjrove to be a curiously marked 



Fig. 21. Oux Butterfly ox Coco.\ B.\rk. 



beetle. Many of these are such exact counterparts that we 

 have to touch them to undeceive ourselves. After seeing some 

 bats hung in the shadows between the buttressed bases of 

 great trees, we imagine them in every patch of moss or dried 

 leaves. 



The resemblance to inanimate objects is never violated and 

 often remarkably heightened by the little creatures of fur, 



