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The coolie also told me that 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. JBefore this set in there were 
three feet of snow on the ground, and on the 12th, 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 River 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 iere. I 
therefore left the botanical collector with dicctions to 
gather specimens of plants during the day ani to sugar 
for moths at night. He had two men under |i): 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 eig iiown feet, 
bearing bunches of fruit at least a foot long, the berries 
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