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" Smoked burro meat, called 'bastrama,' is very nice 

 and is eaten raw like Westphalian ham, and is especially 

 adapted on long journeys and in hard countries. 



" Dried burro meat, resembling the well known Mexican 

 rarne seca, is not bad, providing the burro is killed while 

 young, otherwise the meat is very tough, but free from the 

 odor of an old goat." 



Jungle Can Furnish Food: 



During the war period when food conservation was be- 

 ing discussed pro and con as to ways and means, Randolph 

 L. Summerfield, of Singapore, who has lived for forty 

 years in the Malay States, arrived at Seattle on a govern- 

 ment mission, and made the statement that "the world's live 

 stock market has been decimated, but if worst comes to worst 

 and there's a real meat famine, the jungles of the Malay 

 States can supply vast quantities of meats and fats. Our 

 forests are full of monkeys of all kinds. Our streams teem 

 with crocodiles. The huge anaconda snake is numerous and 

 prolific. Monkey meat, cooked French or Spanish style, 

 billed on the menu as veal, would make an epicure yearn for 

 more. There's no disagreeable sentiment about killing a 

 crocodile or the boa constrictor. Portions of the 'crocoV 

 tail are extraordinarily good, and the boa constrictor is a 

 culinary favorite in India. Fried in butter, or certain oils, 

 the boa constrictor is considered a delicacy." 



Risk Lives to Catch Fish: 



Lads of the tender age of nine to twelve years at the old 

 Indian settlement of La Push, nestling behind the pinnacle 

 rocks that rise out of the Pacific Ocean off the mouth of 

 the Quillayute river in Washington, nobly did their share 

 toward winning the war involving nearly all the world. 

 These lads, scantily clad, are \vont to dash across the beach 

 to meet the incoming tide, wade into the water and wait for 



