cutter, but ma-^ use a tin of butter later. I am in cood piiysical condition. 



I have to stay up at night later than the Chinese helpers, and get up when 

 they do. at dByli{tht, yet they are a little bit more tired and sleepy than I am at 

 night • 



more is niu,ch mh ...i tnis side of lacnow, especially iron* In some places 

 there are good coal deposits* 



I hB.ve seen none oi the larger red ants found about ^atsienlu ana ... ,..„,pan in 

 the higher altitudes. 



roday a coolie witn a load containing bottles slipped and fell do^mliill. 

 Several bottles viere- broken, vhiich will leave us short* 



lOonf^xit 1 visited the head military official of this district, including 

 hingyuen. He is probably mlf Chinese and half tribesman, but he is the leading 

 man of this district. He is giving mo .-ilitary escort that means adequate pro- 

 tection to hingyuenfu. He says it is um-zise and unsafe to imnt or collect on" the 

 mountains mr ■ hingyuenfu, but if I will come back to \ o ■ xje stopped last night 

 he can furnisi. adequate protection and tiiere Ib plenty of gsane. 



July ^5. foday ^^e got ten birds, fwo were woodtjeckers , the kind I -"it one 

 specimen of near the top of Mt * Oraei in 1925. 



i*- ■ -ara all nii-dit last night and this morning until about 8s 30. V/e 



travelled to LI fseo^ 70 li, tomorrow we iiave 50 li to travel before reaciiin?? 

 ■i^angyuenfu, he are travelling almost directly south. 



I>urin tne past few days --e have generally been in narrow valleys or gulches 

 between stee^.^ .Tiuuntains . Joua; the valley widenea out and the mountains and hill- 

 sides are irxuca. ..-^ore ;radual or sloping, ^his looks lilce r --;)logically old valley, 

 \mile the others ya^seu tlawu look like young valleys. 



This afternoon the sun came out ana dried the roads up. 



fne river and streams itr-- ua^ollen and muddy. 



'O c:m. nor \/ork i^.e ilI h :ountains around hingyuenfu because of the Lolos. I 

 v;ant to cover ihng'ueafu v-ji tiioroughly in 9 or 10 days and then come back and 

 spend 1 uout cjg/s e' ch in nlaces vmere it is safe and - v.^a:*e i- C' - -ork in the 

 li iior alti tudes , 



"^^e are spending the night at hi fseo, tne altitude of ^^lich is about 6hOO feet.' 



I'he coolies were able to ride aown the river in boats for about Z5 li, but with 

 the natter and the aborigine Imnter Yang f jn- fi^aag 1 vmlked all the v/ay so as to 

 collect . *-^ecured some good insects. 



he have seen almost no snakes, he imve seen only 2 since the day we left 

 Yachow and iiave both of them, he iiave seen no mammals at all excepting a black bear 

 that tne aborigines Ima killed, fiiey had torn off some of its cla^^s, or we might 

 have ourcimsed it. 



