these fruits of have seen no evidence of occupation by its neighbours than ward within except from chance pits why should any one thought have come to this minute spot to become clearance for the thrum in thga market I can not imagine; anyway they certainly decided that it was a waste waste of energy for its pits had been aban- doned only ago. One morning while I was wandering than its works far up for the valley I heard a trapiti bark, instantly it was answered from across its opposite nut. nut and again from another far away. The first me was near me - behind them, I stalked the animal breathlessly but only had the pleasure of seeing it come for to fly opening in its front & disappear so into a ravine. A few moments later he barked again far below; he was on his way to answer that challenge of his rival across the stream and that was hopeless, I went to the edge of the forest, if for a long ten minutes of the road's opposite slope, but there was not another sound of the animals. That same a.m. only a short dist ance from where I sat S.D. had come upm a cow 'trapiti' feed with herself. He had killed them both and returned to camp. Finding me gone the others