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flavour of the common mushroom. Here it is often as large 
as a breakfast plate, and sound throughout. While they 
last, they are a luxury indeed, especially if you have been, 
as is likely, for weeks without vegetables of any sort. 
I should add, when you make permanent camp, direct 
the headman to put up a rain-proof grass hut for your 
own use, without delay. It is much cooler than a tent to 
sit in, and it is better to have the flies, that will accumulate 
at meal time, pay their inevitable attentions to you in the 
open air, than swarm in your tent, as you try to eat or read. 
I find I left out one delicacy. J. J. W. declares that 
lion’s tongue is excellent, but he had the dish to himself! 
