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'?oday we secured 3 birds. Vv'e are spending the nigiit at Ben Shiang Uin. 

 ]}he altitude is 61Q0 feet, approxinmt6?ly 



Ihe2*e was a heavy wind today wiiicli made our catch of insects Sfnaller, but 

 we securea 3 birds and £ snakes. 



I measured a '^black-boned'^ X^olo or Moso today « ^Hhsj call themselYes Blaclc- 

 boned people and consider themselves the ISlite. I!here are white-boned holes who 

 are part Gninese* He ms darker tlian an^^ Ohinese or Glruan Miao 1 Mve measured. 



July 24* Today we travelled 100 11 to zLo uovrn of ^ the elevation of 

 which is about 6500 feet, he secured 4 birds. /e passea throu^^h a village tiiat 

 had been looted<j the houses burnt, and the p^^ople, Chinese, ta^ien away as captives 

 b^ the Lolos* Some of the captives Imve ucon ransone;:., -nilo others have not and 

 are still in captivity* 



We arrived here at 4^30 P. M. and just missed a very heavy rain and txxunder- 

 storm. It would have drenched us and our thinf^s. 



I have 14 coolies . There are 3 collectors and skinners • I niake 18. l^art of 

 the time I have had an escort of 15 soldiers and yxunen (?) i*u.nners, making a total 

 of 34 in the e^cpedition. '^Safety first'* is motto, for the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution cannot afford to lose the collecting; outfit, ana neither the Smithsonian 

 Institution nor I can pay a ransom of 2^000 or 3000 collars Mexican* 



The military o*"ficial at ^en biiiitii."; bin, ^.-xero we ^tayec last iii ht, is vcr^ 

 friendly. He r^^^jrts t^r.t in :<,w- " oodi ' bout ti.c to^ n tiier?'- is ^deiit;; or '11 wrne 

 and tMt he L.ev.>uro tne coop^^r tion jT tj e •*ol:^ch-bone.i'' Lolos in sccuriu __w.:e. 



I ina,y po back t . t. t to^n a..d iiunt i:_d collect r. fo' . .if tor ii..ve - orxca _,t 

 Yin^^j^raenfu. The:^ I -^ant to " ork i„. t..e tor/itor,; of fri^Wi-ulp Lolos near Ai Lin 



'i^efore rotumin , to Juiiu* 



^iJhe rice --:ro\/n in tlie ^ ^.ast altitudes is ;red instead of white- The wliite 

 rice will nou ro:; there* 



The ^*blac:':-bone'^ Lolos seem niU-Ch darker than the Ohinese. Tnev burn their 

 dead insteau of Inirping tiiem. 



i»Ianv things about the Lolois and the Fan people in this section remind me of 

 Tibet . 



hot a few Ohinese wear Lolo clothing made and worn or sold by the Lolos or 

 Losos. 



The Lolos are heavy drinkers of liquor* They are very often be*-piiw: money to 

 buy it vfith. 



The dra':onflies and some of the other insects found here seem different from 

 those i^. dri.ur^^j. Ozechuan. 



On this tri^' 1 ^. eating very little foreign food. I eat Chinese rice and 

 vegetables with Chinese collectors, using chopsticks « I supplement this wit.; 

 carnation milk^ cookies, and fruit canned in Ssecmian. Tiiis cuts down, the food- 

 loads. I ^ netting along as well as I would on foreign food. 1 an not usinw 



