192 HEAVY SNOW-STORM 
from under the stones. Next day I collected a few 
butterflies. 
June 3.—I took a walk of about twenty-five li to the 
southward. The path led through a forest of magnifi- 
cent pine trees as straight as an arrow, many being 
three feet in diameter. They would make splendid 
timber if there was any use for it in the place where it 
grows, but there are no roads or means of transporting 
such large trunks. In places the rhododendrons were 
very beautiful, and grow larger than at the higher 
elevations. Oak trees, several species of beech, larch, 
limes, walnut, stunted bamboo, and many evergreens 
are also plentiful. The bark of the pines was covered 
with lichen and ferns. I returned to camp in the 
evening. 
June 5.—A heavy snow-storm and bitterly cold, all 
the bloom being cut off the rhododendrons. Really 
terrible weather, and like a Canadian winter. In the 
evening there was a foot of snow on the ground. A 
coolie came in during the day with the news that the 
road to Ta-tsien-lu was blocked with snow, and that the 
people at Mo-si-mien, having heard from the medicine 
collectors that there was a foreigner residing in the 
district, attributed the severe weather to his presence. 
They being much lower down the valley had heavy 
sleet-storms instead of snow. 
