The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-22
Zaino. or wild pig.

thirty thousand Americans who worked
On the Panama Canal found out during
their life on the isthfnus. For the jungle
does no, invite the ripper. There are
no pleasant, shady spots where one can
read a book or eat lunch: mosquitoes
and rnats would attack him from above,
while ants spiders and ticks would
busy themselves with the part next to
the ground.
Excursions up the various rivers in
canoes lake one into the jungle, but
such an explorer gets only an outside
view The only canal men who know 1t
Intimately are the surveyors who have
yeloped the topography Of the Chasres
watershed ar made special investiga-
IONS at the various points. o. x. Mails
bury, in charge OF land surveys In the
office 81 Col. G. W. Goethals. is one Of
hsse. In a recent account Of the jungle
said.
When I try to become definite about
The jungle | realize how little even one
who has seen much OF il knows about
.is life. Impressions OF beauty, mystery
and fear lure with a menace. a smile
that only half covers a snarl-and all
Else is told in a few isolated incidents
when some special phase Of the wilder
ness tie has passed beneath the eyes.
An orchid beckons from the branch
q a tree, a pair OF wild pigs dash away
into the brush. a tiger cat shows its
bright eyes for a moment and in a
flash Of sinewy grace is gone, birds dart
overhead the heron balances daintily
IN reed by the river, an alligator skit-
lers from mud bank into the water,
monkeys lark in the trees. lion growls
In such slight things is summed my
Jungle lore
In one hour the sun looks through
trees and bushes and traces n thousand
patterns on the ground. in the next the
rattle q rain on the leaves is deafening
soon night falls and the parakeets.
cr!okets. frogs lizards begin their I'M
ending chorus. then the howl of mon
Keys adds t. the din, and now and again
the cry II the wildcat and growing
marx % he mountain lion make one glad
mat he IS beside bright fire and his
machete or gun close at hand.
IN" Ion Of the Panama jungle Is o.
,wo kinds black and tawny. Full grown
ne stands thirty inches high: his breast
broad lk" that Of bulldog. but hi
- "ss ar" 'ns His head is square blu
'a'like he "rowls almost like lion bu
mas with bark. / never heard OF hi
lacking q man, but the natives o
ne jung" fear him. He would be
'aheerouS adversary at close quarters
II j. goucrally understood that tn
ANIMALS ut Panama are afraid Of men
IS certain that they do not attacl
men, but run away. Whether this b
aut."n "r fear Is unknowable. On
"ghi WHOM Virgins was on the water
''d survey he pitched his tent on tn
Hhida' ridge few miles beyon
.'arRa'"'a. He had with him four negr
''r'rS They lay down outside tn
~ covered with a tarpaulin and h
''lltd Hr under the shelter.
ne was awakened by a loud cras
"u an 'ngry growI and bark tina
'em"d tight outside the tent. All to
'e,her ne negroes and he jumped u
l"d grabbed their machetes; they ha
10 guns II was very dark. they sa'
i''".N' but a crashing OF branches
N' jungle told that the lion had bee
scared
IN " minute he raised his growl agai
."a " air vibrated uncannlly wit
ne !. r', Five minutes later the sam
s''" j bark were heard across I'll
,"'h The negroes lit fire and did NJ
~ J" ""p again that night. In III
w" ne marks OF the Hons paw
I "Ft' "a near the food supplies, an
''".N '.c feet of where the negrOs
n.y. ]. must have smelled them b,