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"One of our best books of travel." - American Naturalist 1886"Will be thoroughly enjoyed from cover to cover."—Boston Transcript."A genuine American whom no English sportsmen have ever surpassed as a crack shot, or as a man of courage, endurance, and resource." - Dial, 1885"The most varied and valuable zoölogical collection ever made in the field by one man." - Nat'l Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1902To a big-game hunter, notes Hornaday in describing his first tiger hunt, "the moment of triumph is when he first lays his hand upon his game. What exquisite and indescribable pleasure it is to handle the cruel teeth and knife-like claws which were so dangerous but one brief moment before." Of apparently a hardy, iron constitution, which was not subdued by repeated attacks of the jungle fever, and being of great industry and bravery, and withal a good storyteller, the author spent two years in the East Indies dividing his time between India, Ceylon, the Malay peninsula and Borneo, collecting specimens for Ward's natural history museum at Rochester. His travels inspired his first publication, Two Years in the Jungle (1885).An ardent lover of nature whose delight in her scenes makes him indifferent to exposures, hardships and perils of climate, Hornaday was also a quick and keen observer, an expert and an enthusiast in natural science, an eager and confident sportsman who was as much at home in the jungle as the wild beasts he made into trophies. His hunting experiences with crocodiles on the Jumna, with elephants and tigers in the Neilgherry Hills of India and in Ceylon, with monkeys and orang-utans in the Malay Archipelago and in Borneo, are full of interesting incident and exciting adventure which he has the art of describing in an entertaining fashion, with the better art of mingling instruction with entertainment. Hornaday was a sharp-shooter, not only when he uses death-dealing bullets against the wild beasts of the jungle, but also when he levels his shafts of criticism against popular idols, or prevalent conceits. In one criticism of a local natives, he writes, "We can forgive them for worshipping all these animals, because they are cleanly and respectable animals; but for their reverence of such degraded, filthy, naked, and unclean beasts as these fakirs, there is simply no excuse."Regarding the Dyak natives of Borneo, who called him "orang-putei" (white man), Hornaday notes they are "the most happy and contented human being under the sun. His wants are few, and his native jungle supplies nearly all of them. Thanks to his state of savagery, he has not developed one-tenth of the diseases which so often make the lives of civilized people a burden."Though Hornaday believed the theory of evolution, in hunting orang-utans, he was not restrained by any “Am I not a man and a brother?” feeling, collecting 43 orang-utan specimens, including a live juvenile. The captive orang-utan, notes Hornaday, "seemed possessed of a little devil…it had the temper of a tiger. It was restless as an eel, and gave me endless trouble. Once when I was not watching, it rolled over and before I was aware of the movement seized the calf of my leg between its teeth with a perfectly fiendish expression and bit me very severely…"In the two years Hornaday made what has been pronounced the richest, most varied and valuable zoölogical collection ever made in the field by one man. The collection included elephants, bison, bears, tigers, orang-outangs, monkeys, crocodiles, and other large reptiles.About the author:"William Temple Hornaday (1854 –1937) was an American zoologist, conservationist, taxidermist, and author. He served as the first director of the New York Zoological Park (now Bronx Zoo) and he was a U.S. wildlife conservation pioneer.Other works of the author include:•The Extermination of the American Bison•Campfires in the Canadian Rockies •Campfires on Desert and Lava

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