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and angry barking. I clambered up, and through the trees soon 
oo a great spot of orange ; it loomed so large I thought it 
t be a tiger. Further up I saw a beautiful leopard taking a 
rate look at the pony. Loud I halloed—no sign of the dog; 
the leopard skulked off over the hill. Sorrowfully I rode off, 
making much melancholy reflection over poor “ Ad Z jue pu 
To my astonishment I found him lying waiting for r 
foot of the hill, in an open space where Ke Gould ook: all pres 
He had been mauled, but not severely, by claws and teeth, but in 
some mysterious way had escaped out of the leopard’s clutch. 
“ They talk about the spots of the leopard being protective, A 
there is no such brilliant object in nature as a leopard on 
sunny side of a rocky hill. These beasts are nocturnal in ien 
and perhaps his courage was less on that account, and he let the 
dog go when the latter showed fight. How he did bark, so 
angrily! Wallace is right about the put ness of animals. After 
such a terrible encounter, the dog immediately was in excellent 
Spirits, and had quite forgotten his danger. Curiously enough, 
e pony wasn't a bit frightened either 
s ioe regard to seeds, I will do Schi I can, especially later on, 
when I shall have less plant collecting to do in our imm mediate 
neighbourhood. But n is really a difficult matter collecting 
seeds ; one arrives on the grou nd too late or too ea arly. I tried, 
6.g., to collect seeds of ps niin Serra and rhodantha, common 
plants, and reed to get a single seed. You may say, why not 
employ a nativ Ah! you don't know the Yunnanese. My 
eres, ro bl who elec plants, is the only man I know who could 
or would do the work, and even he only does about one-tenth of 
what I could do if I had his time. The others, Chinese and 
aborigines, are too lazy for seed-collecting. I have secured bui 
ue aborigine who would venture into foreign employment ; 
ie) load but Chinese before. He is my groom, and is an 
em 
“The Pm is that if one had nothing else to do, one might 
organize plans and people for carrying on such wor ut it is 
difficult for me, as I have a good deal to do. And vat I doubt 
of 
The flowers of a certain eras ylum ncm cost me three visits 
to one spot and an expenditure of six hours time 
“ Money is not what is wanted, but Pid. oceans of time. 
Nothing astonishes people at home so much as the fact, a real 
fact, that in countries like China you cannot do every thing with 
le. 
money. Patience is more valuab I can get a good deal of 
work d of Chinese on a trip, when I am with them, but not 
otherw hinese are very susceptible to weather, a shower 
Chinese p 
breaks ‘their hearts; they don’t like going into jungle, as thorns 
annoy them and tear their clothes. Now, I don’t mind 
100 thorns ; I wait till I have a lot in, then sit down and pick 
them out. 
x: bo: ihe iei the root of the matter is an absence of 
nervous Their industry, so much talked of, is unreal in 
most parts p. "dio Empire. They are not exactly lazy, but they 
