KEN WARD IN THE JUNGLE

THE JAGUAR OPENED HIS JAWS THREATENINGLY (see page 182)

CONTENTS

CHAP.

1. The Prize

2. The Home of the Tarpon

3. An Indian Boatman

4. At the Jungle River

5. The First Camp

6. Wilderness Life

7. Running the Rapids

8. The First Tiger-cat

9. In the White Water

10. Lost!

11. An Army of Snakes

12. Catching Strange Fish

13. A Turkey-Hunt

14. A Fight with a Jaguar

15. The Vicious Garrapatoes

16. Field Work of a Naturalist

17. A Mixed-up Tiger-hunt

18. Watching a Runway

19. Adventures with Crocodiles

20. Treed by Wild Pigs

21. The Leaping Tarpon

22. Stricken Down

23. Out of the Jungle

KEN WARD IN THE JUNGLE

I

THE PRIZE

"What a change from the Arizona desert!"

The words broke from the lips of Ken Ward as he leaned from the window of the train which was bearing his brother and himself over the plateau to Tampico in Tamaulipas, the southeastern state of Mexico. He had caught sight of a river leaping out between heavily wooded slopes and plunging down in the most beautiful waterfall he had ever seen.