
THE AUTHOR’S “OUTFIT” ON THE CHUCUNAUGA RIVER 
JUNGLE-HUNTING IN PANAMA 
BY HOLTON C. CURL 
(Surgeon U. S. Navy) 
ILLUSTRATED FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY C. W. FEIGENSPAN 
ANAMA has been de- 
scribed of late by nu- 
merous writers and 
from many viewpoints. 
These, however, have 
usually dealt with some 
phase of its climate, 
health conditions, or 
the canal. The study 
of its possibilities from the sportsman’s 
standpoint has scarcely been undertaken 
as yet, for our Americans on the Isth- 
mus have had little leisure for sport, 
and very few Panamaians care for 
shooting, unless it has the spice of a 
revolution in it. 
It may be surprising to learn that 

very fair sport is to be found here by 
one who cares for shooting, and that 
there are delightful side trips which the 
tourist can take, where, within two days’ 
journey of Panama, he can see the 
native Indians living in the same primi- 
tive way that their ancestors did when 
the Spaniards first landed on these 
shores. There are beautiful stretches 
of river where the tropical jungle, with 
its varied vegetable and animal life, 
comes as a revelation to one acquainted 
only with our comparatively somber, 
Northern forests. One finds whole dis- 
tricts inhabited only by a few rubber 
hunters, or by a few families living in 
small clearings along the river. The 
