The land of hidden men

Original Title: Jungle Girl
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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.
THE JUNGLE
My Lord, I may go no farther, said the Cambodian.
The young white man turned in astonishment upon his native guide. Behind them lay the partially cleared trail along which they had come. It was overgrown with tall grass that concealed the tree-stumps that had been left behind the axes of the road-builders. Before them lay a ravine, at the near edge of which the trail ended. Beyond the ravine was the primitive jungle untouched by man.