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Internationales Symposium Über Die Erforschung Biologischer Ressourcen Der Mongolischen Volksrepublik, Michael Stubbe, W. Hilbig, N. Dawaa Jan 1983

Internationales Symposium Über Die Erforschung Biologischer Ressourcen Der Mongolischen Volksrepublik, Michael Stubbe, W. Hilbig, N. Dawaa

Erforschung biologischer Ressourcen der Mongolei / Exploration into the Biological Resources of Mongolia, ISSN 0440-1298

First two paragraphs:

Vom 29. 8. b is 2. 9. 1983 organisierte die Sektion Biowissenschaften der Martin-Luther-Universität gemeinsam mit der Biologischen Gesellschaft der DDR in Halle/ Saale die bisher größte internationale wissenschaftliche Konferenz über die Erforschung biologischer Ressourcen der MVR.

166 Biologen, Fachleute anderer Disziplinen der Naturwissenschaften, der Landwirtschaftswissenschaften und Medizi aus der UdSSR (18), CSSR (15), MVR (13), VR olen (3), Frankreich (2) und der DDR (115) nahmen an diesem Symposium teil, um in einem intensiven Erfahrungsaustausch Fragen der Erforschung der biologischen Ressourcen der MVR zu beraten.


Der Erste Nachweis Von Sorex Isodon Turov, 1924 (Mammalia: Insectivora) In Der Mongolei, Namshil Chotolchu Jan 1983

Der Erste Nachweis Von Sorex Isodon Turov, 1924 (Mammalia: Insectivora) In Der Mongolei, Namshil Chotolchu

Erforschung biologischer Ressourcen der Mongolei / Exploration into the Biological Resources of Mongolia, ISSN 0440-1298

First paragraph:

Das bekannte Areal von Sorex isodon erstreckt sich von Finnland über den europäischen Teil der Sowjetunion, durch Mittel- und Ostsibirien über das Baikalgebiet bis zum Fernen Osten, nach Kamtschatka und den nördlichen Kurilen. Vom Territorium der Mongolischen Volksrepublik war die Art bischer nicht nachgewiesen (BANNIKOV 1954, DULAMCEREN 1970).


Beitrag Zur Ökologie Und Morphologie Von Ovis Ammon L. 1758 In Der Mvr, N. Dawaa, Ch. Suchbat, Michael Stubbe Jan 1983

Beitrag Zur Ökologie Und Morphologie Von Ovis Ammon L. 1758 In Der Mvr, N. Dawaa, Ch. Suchbat, Michael Stubbe

Erforschung biologischer Ressourcen der Mongolei / Exploration into the Biological Resources of Mongolia, ISSN 0440-1298

In dеп Jahгen 1971 und 1974 bis 1977 wurden einige Daten zum Sozialverhalten von Ovis ammon im Mongolischen und Gobi-Altai in der Mongolischen Volksгepublik zusammengetгagen. Die Rudelgrößen und -zusammensetzungen sind saisonal be­ dingt. Beobachtungen zur ciгcadianen und ciгcannualen Aktivität sowie zu inteгspezifischen Kontakten von Wild- und Haustieгen weгden aufsummiert. Die jährliche Zuwachsrate liegt im Mongolischen Altai erhebich unter jener im Gobi-Altai . Diese Erkenntnis sowie zu eraгbeitende Analysen zur Altersstгuktur und natiürlichen Mortalität stellen Gruпdparameter zuг wirtschaftlichen Nutzung der Wildschafbestände dar. Morphologische Daten von 5 Widdern aus dem Gobi-Altai kennzeichnen das Hornwachstum in dieser Region.

Russian abstract:

Заключение

В 1971 …


Stand Und Aufgaben Der Erforschung Der Eintagsfliegenfauna (Insecta, Ephemeroptera) In Der Mongolischen Volksrepublik, D. Braasch Jan 1983

Stand Und Aufgaben Der Erforschung Der Eintagsfliegenfauna (Insecta, Ephemeroptera) In Der Mongolischen Volksrepublik, D. Braasch

Erforschung biologischer Ressourcen der Mongolei / Exploration into the Biological Resources of Mongolia, ISSN 0440-1298

Der gegenwärtige Stand der Erforschung der mongolischen Ephemeropterenfauna wird dargelegt. Für die MVR können 54 Arten belegt werden. Die Eintagsfliegen des Landes entstammen verschiedenen Gruppen und Faunenelementen: holarktische, eurosibirische, mongolische und mandschuro-japanische.


Entwicklung Und Stand Der Geobotanischen Forschung Über Die Mongolische Volksrepublik, W. Hilbig, B. M. Mirkin Jan 1983

Entwicklung Und Stand Der Geobotanischen Forschung Über Die Mongolische Volksrepublik, W. Hilbig, B. M. Mirkin

Erforschung biologischer Ressourcen der Mongolei / Exploration into the Biological Resources of Mongolia, ISSN 0440-1298

In vor liegendem Beitrag wird die Entwick lung der geobotanischen Forschung über das Gebiet der Mongolischen Volksrepublik dargestellt. Ausgehend von ersten eigen­ ständigen geobotanischen Forschungen sowjetischer Botaniker auf Expeditionen durch die Mongolei in den 20er und 30er Jahren, wurde die pflanzengeograph isch-vegeta­ tionskundliche Erkundung der Mongolei auf sowjetisch-mongolischen Exped itionen der 40er und 50er Jahre weitergeführt. Die besonderen Verd'.enste von A. A JUNA­ TOV und E. M. LAVRENKO an der Entwicklung der geobotanischen Forschung in der Mongolei werden hervorgehoben. JUNATOV war auch besonders an der Heran­ bildung mongolischer Geobotaniker beteiligt. Einen besond eren Schwerpunkt der geobotanischen Forschung in der Mongolischen …


Abriß Der Erforschungsgeschichte Der Avifauna Mongolica, R. Piechocki Jan 1983

Abriß Der Erforschungsgeschichte Der Avifauna Mongolica, R. Piechocki

Erforschung biologischer Ressourcen der Mongolei / Exploration into the Biological Resources of Mongolia, ISSN 0440-1298

Die erste Periode der Erforschung der Avifauna mongolica umfaßt den Zeitraum von 1871 bis 1931. Nach den zentralasiatischen Expeditionen von N. M. PRZEVALSKIJ brachten dieser und danach F. D. PLESKE und W. L. BIANCHI die ersten ornithologischen Beiträge heraus. Im Auftrage der Russischen Geographischen Gesellschaft leitete G. N. POTANIN eine Expedition durch die Nordwest-Mongolei. Weitere Expeditionen führte P. K. KOZLOV durch; die ornithologische Ausbeute wurde von W. L. BIANCHI bearbeitet. Um die Jahrhundertwende setzt die Erforschung der Nordmongolei ein durch W. S. MOLLESON, 0. BAMBERG und F. SCHILLING. Die ornithologische Erschließung der Nordwest-Mongolei ist P. P. SUSHKIN und A. J. …


Ubersicht Der Ergebnisse Der Ungarischen Zoologischen Expeditionen In Der Mongolischen Volksrepublik 1963-1968, Zoltan Kaszab Jan 1983

Ubersicht Der Ergebnisse Der Ungarischen Zoologischen Expeditionen In Der Mongolischen Volksrepublik 1963-1968, Zoltan Kaszab

Erforschung biologischer Ressourcen der Mongolei / Exploration into the Biological Resources of Mongolia, ISSN 0440-1298

Die Fauna der Mongolischen Volksrepublik war bis zu den 60er Jahren unseres Jahrhunderts fast unbekannt geblieben. Eine Ausnahme ist die Wirbeltierfauna, welche vor allem von russischen Zoologen gründlich erforscht und deren Resultate publiziert wurden. Dagegen hatten wir von den Wirbellosen nur spärliche Angaben in der Literatur, welche teils auf der Sammeltätigkeit russischer Forscher beruhen. Von ungarischer Seite war nur eine Expedition an der Jahrhundertwende (1898) von dem Grafen Eugen ZICHY durchgeführt worden, und während der kurzen Durchreise (3. bis 15. September) in der Mongolei hat sein Begleiter E. CSIKI, damaliger Kustos der Zoologischen Abteilung des Ungarischen Nationalmuseums, ein abwechslungsreiches zoologisches …


Review Of Saving The Prairies: The Life Cycle Of The Founding School Of American Plant Ecology, 1895-1955 By Ronald C. Tobey, Royce E. Ballinger Jan 1983

Review Of Saving The Prairies: The Life Cycle Of The Founding School Of American Plant Ecology, 1895-1955 By Ronald C. Tobey, Royce E. Ballinger

Great Plains Quarterly

Saving the Prairies is an analysis of the growth, development, and decline of a major school of ecologists centered mostly at the University of Nebraska from the 1890s to the early 1950s. The title stems from Ronald Tobey's conclusion that the demise of the grassland ecologists resulted in part from their involvement in practical problems of range management during and following the devastation of the prairies by the great drought of the 1930s.

The book centers on the ideas, principally plant community succession, developed by Frederic Clements, colleagues such as Roscoe Pound, and a network of students whose research concerned …


Review Of Town And City: Aspects Of Western Canadian Urban Development Edited By Alan F. J. Artibise, John C. Hudson Jan 1983

Review Of Town And City: Aspects Of Western Canadian Urban Development Edited By Alan F. J. Artibise, John C. Hudson

Great Plains Quarterly

Western Canada's settlement is neatly divided at the Rocky Mountain front. West of there, the population is urban and the scattered clusters of people are separated from one another by miles of wilderness; on the prairies to the east there is a network of farms, small towns, and cities dominated, in turn, by a handful of metropolises. This valuable collection of papers by sixteen Canadian urban historians and geographers treats urbanization in both of these western Canadian realms, providing a balanced geographical coverage and giving the reader a consistent view of town formation, ranging from the smallest of places to …


American Literary Images Of The Canadian Prairies, 1860-1910, James Doyle Jan 1983

American Literary Images Of The Canadian Prairies, 1860-1910, James Doyle

Great Plains Quarterly

In 1879, the prolific dime novelist Edward L. Wheeler produced a narrative entitled Canada Chet, The Counterfeiter Chief, set in "a location as hitherto quite neglected by the pen of the novelist and veracious historian-i.e., in the British possessions to the North-west of Minnesota." If, as Wheeler suggests, American writers were indifferent to the Canadian West in the nineteenth century, this lack of attention can be related to a number of considerations, the most obvious of which is the fact that Americans were sufficiently occupied by the undeveloped regions within their own border. The westward experience in the United …


Diplomatic Racism Canadian Government And Black Migration From Oklahoma, 1905-1912, R. Bruce Shepard Jan 1983

Diplomatic Racism Canadian Government And Black Migration From Oklahoma, 1905-1912, R. Bruce Shepard

Great Plains Quarterly

From the turn of the century until World War I, hundreds of thousands of American farmers migrated to western Canada. Not all of them were welcomed. Between 1905 and 1912, more than one thousand black men, women, and children joined the trek. They came mainly from Oklahoma, and they settled in Saskatchewan and Alberta. While their numbers were small in comparison to the total American migration, the appearance of these black settlers aroused bitter race prejudice among western Canadians, many of whom demanded that the Canadian government stop more blacks from coming. How the government went about this task is …


Title & Contents- Winter 1983 Jan 1983

Title & Contents- Winter 1983

Great Plains Quarterly

GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY

WINTER 1983 VOL. 3 NO.1

CONTENTS

INTERSECTIONS: STUDIES IN THE CANADIAN AND AMERICAN GREAT PLAINS Frances W. Kaye

DIPLOMATIC RACISM: CANADIAN GOVERNMENT AND BLACK MIGRATION FROM OKLAHOMA, 1905-1912 R. Bruce Shepard

SOCIAL SCIENTISTS AND FARM POVERTY ON THE NORTH AMERICAN PLAINS, 1933-1940 Harry C. McDean AMERICAN LITERARY IMAGES OF THE CANADIAN PRAIRIES, 1860-1910 James Doyle

COMPETITION FOR SETTLERS: THE CANADIAN VIEWPOINT James M. Richtik

BOOK REVIEWS

Town and City: Aspects of Western Canadian Urban Development

The Prairies and Plains: Prospects for the 80s

The Frontier in History: North America and Southern Africa Compared

Ceremonies of the Pawnee, …


Review Of Oklahoma Memories Edited By Anne Hodges Morgan And Rennard Strickland, Brad Agnew Jan 1983

Review Of Oklahoma Memories Edited By Anne Hodges Morgan And Rennard Strickland, Brad Agnew

Great Plains Quarterly

There is something inherently suspicious about a work of nonfiction edited by two scholars that will not cure insomnia. When their book proves to be compelling, the reader assumes either that it has been ghostwritten or that the editors' credentials are specious. Since the pay of scholars would preclude their hiring a ghost and the academic credentials of Anne Hodges Morgan and Rennard Strickland are bona fide, the reader has little alternative but to accept Oklahoma Memories at face value and enjoy one of the most interesting books on Oklahoma published in recent years.

Anne Hodges Morgan, a Ph.D. in …


Review Of Heck Thomas: Frontier Marshal By Glenn Shirley, David J. Bodenhamer Jan 1983

Review Of Heck Thomas: Frontier Marshal By Glenn Shirley, David J. Bodenhamer

Great Plains Quarterly

This book is a reprint of the 1962 edition by the same title. As such, it is subject to the same criticism that greeted its initial publication. The author does not provide citations, he invents dialogue, and he exaggerates Thomas's record and reputation. For a more detailed and reliable account of western lawmen, this reviewer advises readers to consult Frank Prassel, The Western Peace Officer (1972 ) or Larry Ball, The United States Marshals of New Mexico and Arizona Territories, 1846-1912 (1978).


Review Of The Prairies And Plains: Prospects For The 80s Edited By John R. Rogge, R. Leslie Heathcote Jan 1983

Review Of The Prairies And Plains: Prospects For The 80s Edited By John R. Rogge, R. Leslie Heathcote

Great Plains Quarterly

This volume contains the proceedings of the annual meeting of the Prairie Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers, held at Delta Marsh, Manitoba, in September 1980: six invited papers and two "student papers," the latter included for their "interest and because of their Prairie orientation."

The invited papers provide several viewpoints on a core of overlapping themes: the future of agriculture in an environment where climatic and market uncertainties together with economic costs and price-squeeze pressures have thinned out the farming communities over the last sixty years; the environmental transformations resulting from the imposition of agricultural production systems upon …


Review Of Professors, Presidents, And Politicians By George Lynn Cross, James C. Olson Jan 1983

Review Of Professors, Presidents, And Politicians By George Lynn Cross, James C. Olson

Great Plains Quarterly

One of the major success stories of American higher education has been the development of a positive relationship between universities and the people who support them. That relationship protects the right of professors to teach and students to learn without undue political interference and at the same time provides for the exercise of a reasonable amount of public authority over the institutions. In Professors, Presidents, and Politicians, George Lynn Cross, who served as president of the University of Oklahoma from 1943 to 1968, traces the sometimes stormy relationship between state government and higher education in Oklahoma in a discussion …


Review Of Hooded Empire: The Ku Klux Klan In Colorado By Robert Alan Goldberg, Robert Larson Jan 1983

Review Of Hooded Empire: The Ku Klux Klan In Colorado By Robert Alan Goldberg, Robert Larson

Great Plains Quarterly

Colorado has the dubious distinction of being second only to Indiana in the number of Klansmen who donned their hoods and engaged in a crusade to ensure that "100 Per Cent Americanism" would characterize the nation's society during the flamboyant twenties. Consequently, a study of the post-World War I Ku Klux Klan in Colorado is of particular importance if we are to gain a better understanding of this phase of the Invisible Empire's history, which "has been lost in the wakes of America's two more publicized Klan movements."

The Colorado Klan, according to Robert Goldberg, was not a product of …


Review Of Ceremonies Of The Pawnee. Part I, The Skiri. Part Ii, The South Bands By James R. Murie, Paul A. Olson Jan 1983

Review Of Ceremonies Of The Pawnee. Part I, The Skiri. Part Ii, The South Bands By James R. Murie, Paul A. Olson

Great Plains Quarterly

After sixty years the Smithsonian Institution has finally published James R. Murie's work on Pawnee ceremonies in a handsome set of two volumes, impeccably edited by Douglas R. Parks. Murie, part Pawnee and somewhat trained in the techniques of anthropological investigation, began serious study of his own tribe in the 1890s and completed it in 1921 shortly before his death. Through much of his career he worked with white anthropologists such as Alice Fletcher, George Grinnell, Owen Dorsey, and Clark Wissler, some of whom gave him scant credit for his assistance in their research and publications. These volumes were begun …


Review Of The Forgotten Frontier: Urban Planning In The American West Before 1890 By John W. Reps, Charles S. Sargent Jan 1983

Review Of The Forgotten Frontier: Urban Planning In The American West Before 1890 By John W. Reps, Charles S. Sargent

Great Plains Quarterly

The title of this book is misleading. If the work carries one persistent message, it is that the cities of the American West were not planned at all. Conceived as speculations in land, yes; almost always designed in the form of a repetitive gridiron, yes; but planned in any twentieth-century sense of the word, definitely not. Only the southwestern Spanish towns and the Mormon towns of Deseret come close to being examples of "urban planning." City planning, after all, only came along early in the twentieth century, and Reps clearly illustrates that few towns were established after 1890. The term …


Review Of The Life And Death Of Jerome Tiger: War To Peace, Death To Life By Peggy Tiger And Molly Babcock, Joseph Stuart Jan 1983

Review Of The Life And Death Of Jerome Tiger: War To Peace, Death To Life By Peggy Tiger And Molly Babcock, Joseph Stuart

Great Plains Quarterly

Jerome Tiger, a Creek-Seminole painter of Muskogee, Oklahoma, produced what amounts to a visual history of the Five Civilized Tribes (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole) during the 1960s. Under the guidance of Muskogee entrepreneur Nettie Wheeler, he rose to prominence in the highly circumscribed world of Native American painting. In 1967, when Tiger was twenty-six years old and on the eve of commercial success, he died from an accidental, self-inflicted gunshot on the parking lot of a Muskogee cafe.

His widow, Peggy, and cousin, Molly Babcock, pay him tribute in this lavishly illustrated book. A high-school dropout, Tiger served …


Intersections Studies In The Canadian And American Great Plains, Frances W. Kaye Jan 1983

Intersections Studies In The Canadian And American Great Plains, Frances W. Kaye

Great Plains Quarterly

In March of 1982, the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln sponsored the symposium Intersections: Studies in the Canadian and American Great Plains. This was the sixth in a series of annual Great Plains symposia, each focusing on a different aspect of the region. Intersections was also a direct response to the Crossing Frontiers conference on the literature and history of the Canadian and American Wests, held in Banff, Alberta, Canada, in 1978. The four essays in this Great Plains Quarterly represent a cross section of the twenty-nine papers in nine disciplines presented at Intersections …


Psi: An Attractive Alternative For The Basic Speech Communication Course, William J. Seiler Jan 1983

Psi: An Attractive Alternative For The Basic Speech Communication Course, William J. Seiler

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

The Personalized System of Instruction (PSI), often referred to as the Keller Plan after its founder Fred Keller, was developed to teach introductory psychology courses. Since it was first used, however, PSI has seen widespread use in many disciplines. Sherman estimates that six thousand PSI courses have been taught at all levels of education by virtually all disciplines. Boylan reports that more than thirteen hundred individuals presently use the PSI method on the university and college level; that 80.5% of the individuals surveyed represent four-year institutions, with the remainder representing two-year institutions; that 66% of the colleges and universities are …


The Social Context Of Pedestrians’ Rights, Michael R. Hill Jan 1983

The Social Context Of Pedestrians’ Rights, Michael R. Hill

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Pedestrians' rights are now problematic only as a result of the relatively recent socio-technological development of motor vehicles and their widespread socioeconomic adoption as a transportation mode. Prior to the advent of motor vehicles, the “pedestrian problem” as we know it today did not exist, This is not because pedestrians did not exist, but because it was not yet politically necessary to define pedestrians and their behavior as a “Problem”. To drive home the point, a survey of state statutes in this country reveals that the legal definition of a “pedestrian” is uniformly found within the Motor Vehicle Code of …


Notes & News- Winter 1983 Jan 1983

Notes & News- Winter 1983

Great Plains Quarterly

NOTES & NEWS

1983 GREAT PLAINS SYMPOSIUM: MAPPING THE AMERICAN PLAINS

JOSLYN MUSEUM OPENS CENTER FOR WESTERN STUDIES

AMERICAN INDIAN QUARTERLY

PLAINS AQUATIC RESEARCH CONFERENCE


Review Of The Frontier In History: North America And Southern Africa Compared Edited By Howard Lamar And Leonard Thompson., Leslie C. Duly Jan 1983

Review Of The Frontier In History: North America And Southern Africa Compared Edited By Howard Lamar And Leonard Thompson., Leslie C. Duly

Great Plains Quarterly

Taking an attractive approach to a study heretofore reviewed in only superficial terms, Howard Lamar and Leonard Thompson provide a fascinating and at times profound basis for comparing processes within the American and South African frontiers. Especially pertinent is their jointly authored introduction in which, after reviewing the literature, they provide a definition of a frontier as a zone of interpenetration between two previously distinct societies. Their definition is made usable in the subsequent four sets of paired essays, with each set focusing upon a broad historical process associated with the two frontiers.

In the first and best pair, Robert …


Social Scientists And Farm Poverty On The North American Plains, 1933-1940, Harry C. Mcdean Jan 1983

Social Scientists And Farm Poverty On The North American Plains, 1933-1940, Harry C. Mcdean

Great Plains Quarterly

Chronic farm poverty in the Great Plains during the Great Depression of the 1930s provoked sharply differing responses from the governments of the United States and Canada. Among the many features of American and Canadian life that helped shape those different responses, the most significant was the status of the social sciences in agriculture. In nearly every category one might employ to assess their comparative status, from funding to publication record to political influence, social scientists in the United States enjoyed an impressive advantage over those in Canada by 1930. A historical appraisal of one element in this disparity-the research …


Competition For Settlers The Canadian Viewpoint, James M. Richtik Jan 1983

Competition For Settlers The Canadian Viewpoint, James M. Richtik

Great Plains Quarterly

Many aspects of Canada's relationship with the United States were summed up by Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau when he told an American audience in Washington, D.C., "Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even tempered is the beast ... one is affected by every twitch and grunt." Canada has always lived next to this generally friendly elephant and Canadian policy makers have never been able to shake off the need to consider what has happened or may happen south of the border. Although the context was different …


The Nebraska Anthropologist Volume 6 (1983) Contents Jan 1983

The Nebraska Anthropologist Volume 6 (1983) Contents

Nebraska Anthropologist

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .............. i

HUMAN ADAPTATIONS IN THE ANDES: A LOOK AT NUTRITION AND BRAIN FUNCTION WITH RESPECT TO COCA AND HIGH ALTITUDE PHYSIOLOGICAL ADAPTATIONS (Barrett P. Brenton) .............. 1

Introduction .............. 2

Biochemical Aspects of Tryptophan and Serotonin .............. 2

Nutritional Control of Brain Tryptophan and Serotonin .............. 3

Food and Nutrition in the South American Andes .............. 7

Diet Composition and Tryptophan/Serotonin Production .............. 9

The Affects of Coca Chewing and Serotonin in Thermoregulation .............. 16

Possible Effects of Coca Alkaloids and Serotonin in Hypoxia .............. 18

Conclusion............... 23

References .............. 25

MANIOC AND FISH: A "METHIONONIAN" COMPROMISE IN …


Manioc And Fish: A "Methiononian" Compromise In Amazonia?, Tom Langdon Jan 1983

Manioc And Fish: A "Methiononian" Compromise In Amazonia?, Tom Langdon

Nebraska Anthropologist

Protein as a limiting factor in Amazonian diet has met with considerable discussion and argument (e.g., Beckerman 1979; Chagnon and Hames 1979; Johnson 1982; Gross 1975, 1982; Spath 1978, 1981; Werner et al. 1979). The intent of this paper is to continue the discussion of protein as a limiting factor in Amazonia with respect to two dietary staples, manioc and fish. More specifically, does bitter manioc become a factor in determining aquatic resource utilization in Amazonia?


The Plow And Its Influence On The Rise Of Civilization, Tom Langdon Jan 1983

The Plow And Its Influence On The Rise Of Civilization, Tom Langdon

Nebraska Anthropologist

In the magical land of Toosuiter, Butane worked his small garden. He worked with his little digging stick clearing the patch of eternal rock that seemed to multiply from one season to the next. Then he'd sing the little redundant ditty: "Little poke here, little seed there, little poke here, little seed there."

He planted his seeds and delicately covered them up with the fresh fertile earth. Yams were a delicacy. They really "tasted good" with the fresh meat that Pamela, his wife, would hunt in the surrounding forest. It was a magical life, and the land and the forest …