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not planted until the rain in late May & June. No maize has yet been planted which is also a summer crop. I saw quite a number of red raspberries growing on a woody tree like bush. The berries were bright crimson & tasted well. Along the roadside the common broad leaved bramble is in fruit, the small golden fruit being edible but not very luscious.

[[circled]] 11 [[/circled]] This morning I shot a fine old [[male symbol]] Sambar which 4 men with 3 dogs drove from cover where I hunted last night. I hit the beast thru the shoulders at 400 yards as it ran thru a bean field. It ran over the hill & we followed the blood spoor & found it dead in a forested ravine below the ridge. The bullet had gone clean thru both shoulders + chest filling the lungs with blood + sticking inside the slain. The whole