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The coolie also told me tluit^ the horse that had been 

 killed near the top of the pass had been almost entirely- 

 devoured by leopards. 



The snow-storm continued till June 9, on which day 

 there was a rapid thaw. Before this set in there were 

 three feet of snow on the ground, and on the 12tli, the 

 weather appearing to be more settled, I made a trip to 

 the southward, and, again passing through the forest, I 

 crossed a tributary of the Tung Eiver by a wooden 

 bridge at Ta-chiao 8,000 feet above the sea. Even at 

 this lower elevation there were not many species of 

 lepidoptera out yet, the recent snow-storm having doubt- 

 less retarded their appearance. I arrived at Pu-tzu- 

 fong in the evening, where there is a hut which gives 

 a bare shelter, but not much more, to the medicine 

 collectors who frequent the neighbourhood. 



This appeared to be a very favourable spot for col- 

 lecting later on — probably next month would be a very 

 good time — and I resolved to have a station here. I 

 therefore left the botanical collector with directions to 

 gather specimens of plants during the day and to sugar 

 for moths at night. He had two men under his orders 

 for day-work with the lepidoptera. 



On my way to this place I noticed some black currant 

 bushes, which grew to a height of nearly eighteen feet, 

 bearing bunches of fruit at least a foot long, the berries 



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