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of the town and district had been turned over to the 
civil mandarin. This will probably be a bad thing for 
the missionaries, for he is an ignorant man and much 
prejudiced against foreigners. I took his photograph 
while there, as he was particularly anxious to have it 
done. 
My collectors arrived the next day, having been 
delayed slightly on their journey down by the floods 
on the Ya River. They had all done very well, and I 
got the collections on board at once to arrange and 
pack. The living specimens consisted of fifty-three 
Crossoptilon (mentioned before), three Amherst phea- 
sants, one Lophophorus [’huysit, two pheasants (Phasi- 
anus decollatus), one tragopan and two bear cubs. There 
was no room in my boat for these, and I was obliged to 
hire a large sampan for their conveyance. I also got 
the French missionaries to hire a boat for the collection I 
had taken charge of for Prince Henri, as Ithought they 
would be able to do so on more advantageous terms 
than I could. They only chartered her for the voyage 
to Chung-king, however, and at that place I had to 
hire afresh. All my arrangements were completed on 
September 4. Mr. Vale, of the China Inland Mission, 
came on board and said good-bye, and a start for home 
was made at twelve o'clock, with such a strong current 
in our favour that Sui-fu was reached the next day. 
Q 
