Produced by Steven desJardins, Eric Skeet and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net THE MODERN LIBRARY OF THE WORLD'S BEST BOOKS JUNGLE PEACE _Turn to the end of this volume for a complete list of titles in the Modern Library_ JUNGLE PEACE BY WILLIAM BEEBE Foreword by THEODORE ROOSEVELT [Illustration: (Publisher's Logo)] THE MODERN LIBRARY PUBLISHERS :: :: NEW YORK _Copyright, 1920, by_ HENRY HOLT & CO. _Manufactured in the United States of America_ _Bound for_ THE MODERN LIBRARY _by H. Wolff_ TO COLONEL and MRS. THEODORE ROOSEVELT I OFFER THIS VOLUME WITH DEEPEST FRIENDSHIP NOTE With three exceptions these chapters have appeared in the pages of _The Atlantic Monthly_, and I publish them through the kindness of the Editor, Ellery Sedgwick. "Hoatzins at Home" is adapted from a title in my _Tropical Wild Life_, Volume I, published by the New York Zoölogical Society, which deals with the more technical results of study at the Research Station. The illustrations are from my own photographs, except the frontispiece and those facing pages 162, 186, and 268, which were taken by Paul G. Howes. All the chapters dealing with the jungle relate to Bartica District, British Guiana, except X, which refers to Pará at the mouth of the Amazon. FOREWORD Mr. Beebe's volume is one of the rare books which represent a positive addition to the sum total of genuine literature. It is not merely a "book of the season" or "book of the year"; it will stand on the shelves of cultivated people, of people whose taste in reading is both wide and good, as long as men and women appreciate charm of form in the writings of men who also combine love of daring adventure with the power to observe and vividly to record the things of strange interest which they have seen.