IX CONTENTS 
Sections Page 
III Landfall and Island Survival 31 
Protection from the sun 32 
Quenching thirst 32 
The coconut 36 
Island sea food 40 
Hints on spearing and preparing fish.. 47 
Fish with poisonous flesh 48 
Fish with venomous or poisonous spines. 49 
Handling dangerous fish_„ 52 
IV Natives . 53 
V Tropical Forests 58 
Water. 59 
Getting out of the woods 61 
Firemaking 65 
Forest dangers 71 
Snakes and crocodiles 75 
Bloodworms _ 77 
VI Food in the Tropics ... 79 
Animals, birds, etc 79 
Food plants 83 
Plants along seashores 84 
Clearings and abandoned fields 93 
Open grassland, thin woods, and 
thickets.... ... 105 
River and stream margins 105 
Swamps 108 
Forests and jungles 112 
Particular regions 116 
Poisonous plants 119 
Polluted plant foods ... 130 
