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The way back was just as arduous and strenuous as the journey out. 

 The following incident is typical of the return march. ". . . . Last 

 night there was a very hard rain, amounting almost to a cloudburst. 

 .... This morning I heard that a creek ahead of us had washed 

 away its l^ridge. There was no crossing this creek without a bridge. I 

 said that we had a carpenter with us. and so we would build a bridge, 

 and ordered all the coolies to bring along their loads and help. They 

 were so confident that we couldn't build a bridge that they didn't 

 come. It was five li from .... where they were to the creek, and 

 they thought they would have to carry back their loads to the inn again 

 for the night. One of the coolies had the carpenter's saw. Although 

 he was esj^ecially ordered to bring the saw along, he did not come. 

 With no tool but the Smithsonian hunter's hatchet, the carpenter and I 

 cut down trees and built a bridge across that roaring stream so ... . 

 we .... made our full stage today. Not a nail went into that bridge. 

 It was done in a comparatively short time. The trees that made the 

 foundation w-ere tied tightly together by ropes of tree bark made by 



the carpenter " Two days later Dr. Graham got back to 



Moupin in the midst of a steady rain. The next morning (July 20) he 

 left for Gan Yang Ba where he collected for four days, returning to 

 ]\Ioupin on July 25. Inasmuch as Dr. Graham had to return to his 

 mission school in August, the Moupin expedition had to be ended 

 abruptly. 



There has not yet been time to study the material collected by 

 Dr. Graham, and the results of the trip cannot therefore be evaluated 

 at this time. Many rare and desirable things were obtained, including 

 two genera of mammals new to the museum, as well as many bird 

 skeletons and skins. This brief account may well close with a quota- 

 tion from Dr. Graham's notes, written immediately after the end of 

 the journey. " In a way the Moupin collecting trip is a failure. In 

 a way it is a real and genuine success. The ^Moupin district is too 

 vast and rich to cover in so short a time. In the time available. I 

 could have done better if I had known the country intimatelv. This 

 trip is in a way a successful survey." 



