the meal and or lay sleepily chewing their cubs about their crabs. From gayture more adventure spirits were taking their canary across, we watched a hundred or more canals slip majestically into the brown waters only to huddle together in a dense mate yellow mass when they attack that the full force of the current stunts them. All their dignity fled, & they became merely frightened mountainous flesh and a choir of wringing necks & swiftly swishing tails. Then we saw a cast a dozen canals ears & safely reach the other bank. I tried it with Kublai & then went back for the canals. Leading the fore- most, I took it safely thru & the other came on without mishap. We next in turn Mai-na-ching, a thug after a call on Hansen. And what a feast for our eyes! all the gardens around them were helmed the town were green with vegetables & gave promise of what we could want to relieve our meat diet of the playas. There were wonderful salads - big red fellows, the sweetest I have ever tasted. And tender young lettuce.