ABSTRACT
The mushroom is greatly cherished by the Burmese. Villagers start on the annual hunting expedition in a group, which disperses on arrival at the hunting-ground. Whoever finds a patch of mushrooms first strips it of its contents in silence and then makes the announcement of his success with a gleeful face. The face is so expressive that it has given an expression to the language: ‘The face that has acquired mushrooms’. On my first expedition as a novice, I shouted out ‘Mushrooms, mushrooms!’ with delight as soon as I found them, and before I had the time to pick a few the whole patch was laid bare by a pack of mushroom-hunters.
