CHAPTER XII

RAMBLES IN THE UPPER FOREST 150

Forest Parts—Lost in the Woods—Native Proverbs and Dread

of the Forest—Waterfalls—A Brilliant Frog—Frogs and their

Croaking—A Nest-building Frog—Protective Resemblances and

Mimicry—Beetles—Brilliant Bugs—Memorial Mounds—Iron

Smelting—Feather Bellows—Depths of the Ravines—Forest

Leeches—Ferns—Dyes, Gums and Resins—Candle-nut Tree—Medicinal

Trees and Plants—Useful Timber Trees—Superstitions about

the Forest—Marvellous Creatures—The Ball Insect—Millipedes

and Centipedes—Scorpions

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