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The "bridges were also washed away, so people cannot come to 

 Chengtu, and there is great suffering among the people. 



Oct. 31. The biggest lot of large mammal skins, large and 

 rare, yet secured has just come in. It includes the tajfkin, the 

 black bear, and others . These include: 4 tafkin, 1 cliff ass, 



2 mask deer, males, 2 black bears, 1 wolf, 1 squirrel, 7 Pan Yang, 



females. 



f fhe male tatfkins or wild oxen as the Chinese call them wounded 

 two hunters, shattering the arm-bone of one. 



Mammal \$&& is called by Chinese wi Id ox or cow.- 

 Mammal 1249 is a female of the same species, 

 Mammal 1250, another female of the same species .~^S8i 56 - )2l%jmIjj>%*€*a<4 



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Mammal 1251, reddish wolf, male. 

 Manmal 1252, !f Cliff ass" — 



1253, female black bear. 



1254, male musk deer. -2 Si? 4 ~ "^^^^ 



1255, male musk deer. h 



1256-1261, six female Pan Yang skins S ?£> k ¥ ~~ 

 1262, squirrel from near Wen Ghuan Shi en. 

 Hov. 5, '33. I have spent much of the day working over the 

 mammal skins. 2hose detestable beetles are endangering the lot. 

 If I could send the skins off quickly, that would be fine, but that 

 cannot be done. I now must quickly box up the new skins and said 

 than off as soon as possible. With the unavoidable delay in for- 

 warding the skins it is very hard to avoid losing some of the skins 



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because of vermin or insects. 



