Dear Toot . The locals might have eaten the sausage fly soupe & such like & I did like the big snails' cooked .I've no idea about Andrew Zimmer . Monkeys & Diaker Bush Deer most things edible where fair game for the locals Dane guns or Foo Foo guns so not too surprising .Mostly I et lots of Bananas' & baked bread And out of the blue a local might give you a pineapple . I met people who spoke wonderfully Pickwickian Victorian speech & one English man had been troppo so long he spoke only in pidgin. This bizzaar daily' culture shock' was the norm .along with horrendous guts acke . Though spoken of Nepaul , Kiplings " .The wildest dreams of Que ,Are the facts of Kathmandu" . I three years later I spent two months in Kathmandu not by design just blackwater fever partly recouping at the USAID house at Swayanboonath by the Monkey Temple it over looked the paddy fields that the Gurgas used as a rifle range . Jai Nepal ! viz , 'praise Nepal.' Thank you for your encouragement Toot .
Regards Rudyard
