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however, never eventuated. The substitute quarters, though 

 not so conifortal>le or well situated, served our purpose sufficiently 

 well, Koh Lak, or Prachuap Kirikan as it is now officially called, 

 is a lar'^e sandy bay with rocky limestone headlands or islands 

 connected to the shore at each end. Behind are saltings, low thorny 

 scrub and a certain amount of mangrove beyond the bay. 



The placo is much used as a w^atering place by the princes and 

 noblity from Bangkok and is often crowded. 



We stayed here nearly a fortnigl t and made large addi- 

 tions to our collections, including some interesting S(|uirrels, a Lepus 

 sicnncHfiis and, among birds, 2 species of jacana and a large series of 

 a little Gcrycjitne on which a new species had been erected by Count 

 Nils Glydenstolpe. Very little fishing appeared to be done in the 

 bay, and food of all kinds was dear owing to the number of visitors, 

 while the quality of the w^ater was indifferent. 



Hat Sanuk. 



After our stay at Koh Lak Ave decided to move a few miles 

 into the interior to a place called Hat Sanuk, Avhich had been visited 

 by Count Nyls Glydenstolpe and which was reported to be a good 

 collecting ground. The usual difficulties about transport occurred, 

 but eventually we received fourteen of the local country carts drawn 

 by bullocks or buffaloes. 



The track led at first through saltings liable to be inundated 

 in the wet season, then through open country studded with clumps 

 of thorny bushes and, in places, through a dry and stunted jungle. 

 Everything was parched and dried up, and the rough track was inches 

 deep in a fine impalpable dust that was raised in clouds by the carts, 

 and made walking in their vicinity very disagreeable. Towards noon 

 we reached a small village surrounded by groves of thorny bamboo, 

 through which a pleasant little stream ran. Here we had to stop four 

 hours as the drauorht cattle cannot work during the middle of the 

 day in the hot .season. 



The route then led through open grassy country with scatter- 

 ed trees (.some, of a very beautiful species of Lagerstroania), and 

 clumps of bushes, and eventually entered true jungle, through which 



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