in fruit. Recently we have been having boiled bamboo shoots at the table. They are quite unlike our vegetables in taste, possibly nearest the flavor of an artichoke. A common table bird all that you know as a black stained chicken. The muscle sheaths, then the whole body are deep black & gives the bird a peculiar appearance but the taste is normal. The actual muscle is white and firm generally. The common crop here which I thought was sweet potatoes, is really buckwheat. It is grown everywhere on our hillsides & is used as flour for bread 23 As our success was only a question in 3 days hunt we rode camp this morning & emerged in the Tarpo Yek. The way led down the valley & over a rocky suspension bridge across the Shreck. The common most flowering plants of the roadside