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I am to reach Yin Shin Wan, where Yang and Ho are, earlier 

 tomorrow afternoon* I have sent messengers to them to be ready to 

 travel when we arrive, and will send a messenger ahead tomorrow 

 morning. 



Aug. 29. *We reached Yin Shin Wan by noon* I gave Yang Fong 

 Tsang all of my ammunition excepting the high power rifle ammunition, 

 nearly all my cotton, some wire for mammals, some labels, some kero- 

 sene, arsenic, etc* and brought with me all the animals and birds they 

 have caught . We reached our destination, the Yang Tsi Lin Pass, by 

 four o f clock, tomorrow I reach Kuanshien and s ept. 1 should reach 

 Chengtu. 



I always carry a very light load of things most necessary in 

 collecting. I hire a carrier with specific directions that the load 

 must always be within easy reach. 2he man the head coolie hired to 

 carry is a weak opium smoker and he has been continually dropping be- 

 hind. I have constantly urged and coaxed and even scolded and 

 threatened. Shis morning four cliff pigeons dropped on the road 

 ahead of me. I could have killed them at one shot. I turned and 

 reached for the gun, to find the coolie a quarter of a mile away in 

 the rear. I gave him a couple of cracks with a bamboo stick. He 

 grabbed a carpenter's saw and whacked at me probably a dozen times. 



I managed to ward off all the blows without even being touched, and 

 he broke the handle of his saw. I fired him at once and now have an 

 excellent carri er. 



