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pale colored like turkish tobacco.  It is very mild, & some I smoked had scarcely any tobacco taste or odor & it bit the tongue like most mild tobacco.  They make it in a brass [[?pine]] a pinch at a time, good for 3' puffs.
[[circled]] 6 [[/circled]]  Last night the rain came in violent wind squalls, one of which at midnight blew my tent down.  During the morning I hunted in a grove of large green trees among which I noted the killer fig with its network of strangling branched trunk entwined about several trees.  Another tree had a giant erect trunk & spreading crown.  A common tree here is a large tree with an immense spreading crown & a short buttressed trunk often of great diameter (15-18 feet).  Five olive squirrels were seen on the trees & 2 of the squirrels were bagged.  At noon it