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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! 



