Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net THE SEA AND THE JUNGLE BY H. M. TOMLINSON NEW YORK E.P. DUTTON & COMPANY 681 FIFTH AVENUE Published, 1920, BY E. P. BUTTON & COMPANY _All Rights Reserved_ _First Printing, October, 1920_ _Second Printing, September, 1921_ THE SEA AND THE JUNGLE Being the narrative of the voyage of the tramp steamer _Capella_ from Swansea to Para in the Brazils, and thence 2000 miles along the forests of the Amazon and Madeira Rivers to the San Antonio Falls; afterwards returning to Barbados for orders, and going by way of Jamaica to Tampa in Florida, where she loaded for home. Done in the years 1909 and 1910. DEDICATED TO THOSE WHO DID NOT GO The author is indebted to the editors of the _English Review_, the _Pall Mall Magazine_, the _Morning Leader_, and the _Yorkshire Observer_, for permission to incorporate such parts of this narrative as appeared first in their publications. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. 1 II. 98 III. 185 IV. 246 V. 271 VI. 324 THE SEA AND THE JUNGLE I Though it is easier, and perhaps far better, not to begin at all, yet if a beginning is made it is there that most care is needed. Everything is inherent in the genesis. So I have to record the simple genesis of this affair as a winter morning after rain. There was more rain to come. The sky was waterlogged and the grey ceiling, overstrained, had sagged and dropped to the level of the chimneys. If one of them had pierced it! The danger was imminent.