In this rich soil, with abundance of rain such things the growth is very rapid & thus is a marvellous field for truck gardening. All of it now is but remnants of the timber for of course the mangos will do nothing by the root. Every sort of work which takes him off his horse is talked to a day right. As farren once said, "A mangol would make an excellent cook if you could get him a horse to ride about with kitchen" When we reached west Illega what a different town we found from the one had left! The great bird main street was a running river & every hutting was a mass of liquid mud or else a pond or lake. There seemed hardly an inch of dry land and progress except where heath was out of the question. We made camp on a bit of fresh green and a few hundred yards from "Grds Birthers House" all below so on (the flat over) the Tula River was entirely with sprouts in which blue tusks gave a spot of green. & n that summer many spots mangs spend next a great outside the city, & do not return to their homes till the cold of winter drives them in.