256 IN THE LAND OF THE BORA. 



those of Switzerland, and later on raspberries. 

 Their fate was mostly jam. On the upper edges 

 of the woods, hut only there, there is a profusion 

 of the plant which we Monmouthshire folk call the 

 whimberry, but which is known in other parts as 

 the bilberry and the whortleberry, the last being 

 in Devonshire abbreviated into " oert." The 

 strange thing about these were that there were no 

 berries. I only found one the whole summer, 

 and feel pretty sure that, as a rule, it does not 

 fruit. 



Just by the camp I picked up a stone arrow- 

 head. What old-time sportsman, I wonder, had 

 discharged it, and at what quarry ? Very likely 

 at stag or boar, neither to be found here now. 



