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with rice-fields ; but was now dried up : the 

 stubble of the former harvest remained, and the 

 whole was covered by an abundance of herbage, 

 affording feeding for herds of cattle. A number 

 of various species of Grylli were hopping about 

 the fields, and were caught by the native boys 

 for my entomological collection : they called 

 them, in the language of the country, " Daruar," 

 and these insects are eaten by the natives. 



