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and '1427 o fheir oall ie irary shrill and dietine tlTa; might al^ 



most be oalled a ¥iMatla* ThBj are Tery actiTe aM tlioiigh 1 h&rB 

 tham" eeTeral tlmee, it ie difficult to catch sight of theiiu 



April 1914* 

 SuBgai Merah« 



Hunt baolc fmm eauip until about noon, ^oct 



sxasiiniBg a bird which had he an r^,0stroyed hy arits aiit 



as it ms 



liBB of trtipa* Go omt again during the af terB.o0a..; 

 5:00 P«M#,, hear the roariiM? somnd of rain in the distance so 



omj) jTi,st in. time to keep dry* fiain hard turii^ the eve 



il 4, 1914* 



StiiMsi Ml 



2: the night I was 



the raiB ai 



Several tiaas dmr 

 hy falliiig traae aM sticlce; about 4:00 A#M* I awoto and fo^und the 

 river had risen ahont fifteen feet and the water wsb eeveral inches 

 deep beneath our ''poadok'* or teiaporary hoiuio, but as oiir floorvme 

 five feet from the grom:aa I tho-oght we ?#ere out of tm reach of the 

 water; hcwsvar, shortly after ds^hrtaic tha water reacted our floor 

 and was rising eteadilj. 'fa hung everything .mat was possible to 

 hang, from the rafters incltidiag rioa, salt, hozee,. olothsa, pots.eto^ 



fhe tm rear oorRer posts of tha pond ok are treee and it wae • 

 to these I made fast, ^lith rotan and rope, the boxes that ware too 

 heavj to tie in the rafters* Shore was no place to ait, so we 

 (Ihoet, DJonaii^ and Ah Sii:^ ) stood an& watched the water rise mrrtil 



1ri> 



it wae nearly tip to our 



l%0re were iasects by the htmdrade; ants of eeveral, varieties 

 were the most abundant; there woro also graBs-^hopparSt n 



spiders, ecorpions, centipadoa, oriolcats* lo also saw smny" frogs » 



