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I did not have dinner or lunch today, but ate an occasional peach 

 or cactus fruit. 



Aug. 20. Today, again, we did not see a single bird worth shooting. 

 Today 1 s journey was the hardest between Tatsienlu and ^aehow normally. 

 We are at Hua Lien Pin, altitude about 7700 feet. 



Today we got a moderate catch of insects. 



Aug. 21. We got an early start, and crossed the high mountain pass, 

 Fei Yuen Din, before I ate breakfast. It looked like rain so with the pack 

 animals, now increased to ten, hurried on to Li To. Here we found a great 

 festival in honor of the Earth God, or Lord of the Earth. The streets and inns 

 were packed, but we found a good inn where the collectors and I could stay, and 

 another for the pack animals and their loads . We got about fifteen birds, mostly 

 near the top of the mountain!, and a few good insects. We had an escort of four 

 soldiers. 



Aug. 22 It was exceedingly hot during the day, and the roads were very 



rough . 



During the day I noticed that there were indications that a storm was 

 brewing. We therefore hurried along as rapidly as possible. With the pack 

 animals I arrived at the inn at Chin Chi Shien just before the storm broke. In a 

 short time there was a stream of water running down the main street of the town. 

 The collectors were all drenched . Some of the coolie loads arrived after dark. 

 None of the specimens was injured, 



I called on the magistrate and secured an escort for tomorrow. 



We got no birds, and few insects. 



23. It rained most of the night, but ceased about daybreak. We 

 therefore started on our journey over the Da Shiang Lin Pass. Later it began 

 to rain very hard, and continued most of the day. All of us got badly soaked, 

 but we made our stage, and have since dried out most of our clothes . The creek 



