Excerpt from Jungle Trails and Jungle People: Travel, Adventure and Observation in the Far East Know then, you to whom the message of this book is meaningless, that the underlying motive which prompted the journeys recorded in the fol lowing pages, was - flight of a spirit that would be free from the crying newsboys and the pressure of conventions; in a word, -the lust of adventure. Those who open this volume to view the contents as of a game bag, would better close it and thus save time - and money. There is here the hunting and the killing of big and formidable game, but 'twas not for that alone or even chiefly I trav elled far from the habitations of man. The mere destruction of game, always has been of least interest to me in my wilderness wanderings, and I hope I have never given any other impres sion. It is not the killing but the hunting which stirs the blood of a sportsman - the contest between his skill, persistence, endurance, and the keen senses and protective environment of his quarry. I acknowledge to the joy which comes ln triumph over the brute at the end of fair and hard chase not in the pressing of the trigger, which I never do, except to get needed meat or an unusual trophy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.