These are collected into a mass by pounding the root, and the cake formed from the paste is very nice.

The natives must be admitted to bestow a sort of cultivation upon this root, as they frequently burn the leaves of the plant in the dry seasons in order to improve it.
EDIBLE FUNGI AND GUMS.
The different kinds of fungus are very good.

In certain seasons of the year they are abundant and the natives eat them greedily.
Kwon-nat is the kind of gum which most abounds and is considered the nicest article of food.

It is a species of gum-tragacynth.

In the summer months the acacias growing in swampy plains are literally loaded with this gum, and the natives assemble in numbers to partake of this favourite esculent.