went. He is a man of fifty, heavily bearded, stout, and zxfexgx 
living alone in a pretty house with a lovely garden, although ne 
had written to us in Bnglish, he spoke very little English, and 
we tried to tell him in German what we wanted. He was a tit 
vague. He said that when he had first come out here, thirty 
years ago, there was plenty of game, but now the European women 
had come *-nd there was no more game. He got our hopes Tip toy 
saying that he knew where there w re four otters, but that also, 
it developed, had been thirty years ago. he explained that ne 
himself lived "like a Yogi", and the dogs -ere his children. 
• - , r i S _ 8 pair with a baby - we drove on 
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to Brastagi. 
Here we found the Grand Hotel fortunately had rooms for us. 
Brastagi was one of the places I was prep-red to be dis- 
auoointed Ln. I had heard so much bout it at home, and pictured 
it as too much of a tourist place, with little beyond the climate, 
the opportunities for sports and swimming, to recommend it. 
But it really is glorious. Brastagi itself is 4800 leet nign, 
sotuated on a high plateau, with a, view of the mountains {2 fJ 
volcanoes - count them) projecting from the plain ix. Hose to_ 
the hotel is Sabayak, that curious volcano with the crater belching 
steam half way up from the foot. Farther away is 
a more conventional*, cone-shaped volcano. The air is crisp and 
cool, even at mid-day, and the whole country, stretching inimitably 
to the horizon, is magnificent. 
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,.e started out to find the trail up Sabayak - not that we 
ia> ,, BU to climb to the crater, but we thought that if there was 
a three-hour trail through the forest it might be good entomologi- 
cal collecting. We started up the wrong trail, ana walked for 
some miles through cultivated land, finally finding a. path that 
lef through pine forest (introduced Japanese pine) . However 
Beirne found z bamboo flower, something that she had been especially 
eager to get, and the men found one or two interesting insects, 
lapped up the view, so the afternoon was not entirely 
an< 
wa sted . 
Back at the hotel, we discovered that this war the nly 
place in the East where one could get a hot bath. Then je he. I 
delicious dinner, accompanied by wine in honor of its being _tne 
Brues wedding anniversary. Dancing followed, so it was really quite 
a gay evening. 
Here again we found the hotel notices amusing. One 
noteworthy one was that "chits with unreadable signatures will 
not be accepted." 
June 1? 
We spent the morning seeing some of the country a round 
Brastagi. We went first to La - Beboek, 11 kilometers by car, 
and then - ?i ft*«n-minute walk through the strangest forest 
witched forest. The smell oi sulphur was. noticeable ^long _ 
before one reached the lake, which ws e pale toiue, _^s r fg*g* 
of skimmed milk. 2nd bubtllng wherever «K« sulpnfti spWgi 
