In the last few minutes, as it hung suspended, gracefully spiraled in the moonlight, it had seemed as perfect as the new-sprouted _moras_ at my feet. As I slowly walked out of the jungle I saw in this the explanation of the simile of artificial scenery, of all the strange magic which had come to me as I entered. The alchemy of moonlight turned all the jungle to perfect growth, growth at rest. In the silvery light was no trace of gnawing worm, of ravening ant, or corroding fungus. The jungle was rejuvenated and made a place more wonderful than any fairyland of which I have read or which I have conceived. The jungle by day, as I have said--that, too, is wonderful. We may have two friends, quite unlike in character, whom we love each for his own personality, and yet it would be a hideous and unthinkable thing to see one transformed into the other. So, with the mist settling down and tarnishing the great plaque of silver, I left the jungle, glad that I could be far away before the first hint of dawn came to mar the magic. Thus in memory I can always keep the dawn away until I return. And some time in the future, when the lure of the full moon comes, and I answer, I shall be certain of finding the same silence, the same wonderful light, and the waiting trees and the magic. But Nupee may not be there. He will perhaps have slipped into memory, with Drojak and Aladdin. And if I find no one as silently friendly as Nupee, I shall have to watch alone through my jungle night. INDEX Abary, 99 agouti, 189 allamandas, 85, 182 Amazon, 240 anaquas, 115 anchor, observation from, 22, 23 anis, 47, 100, 118 antbirds, 249 ants, 183, 256, 258; immunity from killing, 231; silvery gray, 223; "white," 233 army ants, behavior in rain, 228, 229; castes, 217; eyes, 219; leap, 212, 213, 223; methods of transportation, 215, 229; moving of nest, 235, 236; tube, 227; trail makers, 221, 222; virility, 234; weight lifted, 216 Barbados, 59-65 Bartica, 141 Basseterre, 45 bat, vampire, 104, 152 batrachian, 212 beach, 62, 63, 70, 74, 75 Beckett, Mr., 124 beena, 274 beetles, 211, 227, 234, 256, 277; mimicry, 257; tiger, 63 bell bird, 159 Berbice, 102, 103, 124 bête rouge, 243, 255 blackbirds, 98, 99 blackfish, 12 bougainvillea, 85 British Guiana, mission to, 67; coast lands, 92-102 bunduri pimpler, 125 bunyahs, yellow-backed, 100 bushmaster, noosing, 188-195; protective coloration, 191, 192; fangs, 194; size, 195 butterflies, on St. Thomas, 38; on St. Kitts, 48; migration of sulphur, 158 caciques, 100 cadouries, 146 callistes, 201, 249 _canella do matto_, 241 cashew, French, 197-200 caterpillars, aquatic, 128 catfish, armored, 112 cecropia, 182 centipedes, 152 cetaceans, 11 chachalacas, 157 churacas, 248 coal-carriers, St. Lucia, 55 convolvulus, 182