Thank you, Yong Peng, for spotting the error.

No, it is not that there is some English missing, but that there is
additional Pali accidentally pasted in here.

This part of the exercise should read simply:

te maya.m bhuumi-pappa.taka.m upakkamimha paribhu~njitu.m.
those / we / earth-fungus / we began / to eat
We began to eat the earth-fungus,

With metta,
John

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "Ong Yong Peng" <yongpeng.ong@...> wrote:
> Dear John and friends,
>
> I think there is some English missing from the section below.
>
> metta,
> Yong Peng.
>
>
> --- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, John Kelly wrote:
> Warder - Exercise 21 (page 176)
>
> te maya.m bhuumi-pappa.taka.m upakkamimha paribhu~njitu.m.
> atha kho te Vaase.t.thaa sattaa bhuumi-pappa.taka.m upakkami.msu
> paribhu~njitu.m.
> those / we / earth-fungus / we began / to eat
> We began to eat the earth-fungus,