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151 Jungle Products 154 San Blas Indian Chief 161 No Race Suicide Here 162 Jungle Guide 164 One Use for a Head 165 Beggars and Cathedrals 167 Far from the Madding Crowd 169 Seawall Church and School, Panama 171 Mandy Did Her Share 173 The Canal Digger 173 The Town Pump, Interior Village 175 Wayside Cemetery in the Jungle 176 Coconuts—So Good and So High 180 Boiling "Dulce"—Crude Sugar 183 Washing by the River 189 Costa Rica Farm House 194 Bananas Thirty Feet High 197 San Blas Indians Have "Poker Faces" 198 Where Styles Molest No More 201 Chinese Always Start a School 205 "Schooldays" 205 Three in a Row 212 Mother, Home, and—the Simple Life 212 Construction Days in Culebra-Gailard Cut 217 Gatun Spillway, Key to the Canal 224 Cristobal Streets 227 Fat Cattle of Coclé 228 Enchanted Islands in Gatun Lake 231 Panama Public Water Works, Interior Country 237 A Jungle Cathedral 242 Shoe-bills Are Small 248

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FOREWORD

The fine art of prowling may be achieved, but is more often a gift of those to the manner born. Professional globe-trotters are not prowlers. They are often the victims of their own sense of superiority. Personally conducted tours are little help to real prowling, and professional guides reduce the sight-seer to a machine for receiving "canned" information with gaping mouth, while with his free hand he extracts tips from his reluctant pocket.

Prowling is an instinct, a sixth sense of locations and values. The prowler must