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Show Insects Popular in Fare of Balince; Eat Anything That Walks, Swims, Crawls commonly eaten, but the people are also fond of stranger foods such as dragonflies, crickets, flying ants and the larvae of bees. Dragon-flies were caught in a most amusing manner: Boys and girls wandered among the rice fields waving long poles, the ends of which were smeared with a sticky sap. The supposedly rank-conscious dragon-flies must always stand in the highest branches and all the boy had to do was hold the stick above the place where a fly stood; it flew on to the sticky end of the pole and was caught. Large numbers were obtained in this curious manner, their wings taken off and the bodies fried crisp in coconut oil with spices and vegetables. Great delicacies are also the scaled anteater, the flying fox (a great fruit bat), the porcupine, large lizards, wild boar, squids, rice birds and all sorts of crayfish. Balinese food is difficult for the nalate of a Westerner. Besides be-fng be-fng erved cold always food is con-ide con-ide cd uneatable unless it yio-y yio-y flavored with a great variety of crushed pungent spices, aromatic aromat-ic roots and leaves, nuts, onions, LarHc fermented fish paste lemon fuS? grated coconut a runners It was so hot that u made rne Mexican raised on chili-nners chili-nners cry and break out in beads P0 perspiration, writes Miguel Co-varrubias. Co-varrubias. Mexican artist, in Asia of certain religious- hibiryr'dougrcroeodires, mn?He T' frogs certain poisonous f h ee'eh s stinging insects, crows, g'l owls' and in general all birds eagica, " . ,,. tiie common W,mofBaH eat everything that people of Bali eat , k rn'ducrand more rarely beef 'and bufialo are the meats most |