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This is the only metaled road outside
of the city, the others being mere wires in
The road led thru green fields
or pastures & fields of maize,
no wheat, potatoes or other
cropsfield was seen. Saw a
few of 3 Pheas in a field +
several scissor - tail flycatchers
+ drawby glossybirds, +
median larks or starlings, on
the way back at dark saw
many quinea pigs or
Rus - is as they are called by
the natives. They were dark
olive black like those I sa
Raya but perhaps smaller.
Many were seen in the
road & hardly moved out of
the way, & habits they
dacted exactly like rabbits.
At the museum metred
Sally to one of the curators,
Sr. Frank. The Museum
is a fine 2 story structure