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This Ace edition follows the text of the first hard-cover edition,
published as _Jungle Girl_ in 1932. Original magazine serialization
under the title _The Land of Hidden Men_ in Blue Book Magazine in 1931.
_Cover art and title-page illustration by Roy Krenkel, Jr._
Printed in U.S.A.
"'There are other things deep in the jungle, my lord, that no man may
look upon and live.'
"'What, for example?' demanded King.
"'The ghosts of my ancestors,' answered the Cambodian, 'the Khmers who
dwelt here in great cities ages ago. Within the dark shadows of the
jungle the ruins of their cities still stand, and down the dark aisles
of the forest pass the ancient kings and warriors and little sad-faced
queens on ghostly elephants. We might escape My Lord the Tiger and the
wild elephants, but no man may look upon the ghosts of the dead Khmers
and live.'"
* * * * *
But Gordon King, child of the twentieth century, was not to be
frightened away by what seemed foolish superstition. The young
American was soon to find that a courageous man might easily enter the
treacherous depths of the jungle, but it was quite another matter as to
whether he might ever come out again, alive.