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Several flocks of the large cranes have flown over ? migrating northward ♦ 



March 10 . Filled box No* 258 with artifacts from the Han Dynasty tombs. The 

 West China Union University would like very much to secure these artifacts, 

 for not a few of them have not yet been found by anybody else. 



March 16. I have been preparing for a trip to Shu Kiang just beyond 

 Pin Shan on the Yangtse Fdver- west of Suifu, on the Yunnan side. Chen Gih 

 Uen asked that he be given some collecting materials and be allowed, to bring 

 in what be could receiving pay in proportion to what he brings in* I have 

 consented, for in this way we shall pay only for what we receive. 



I have sent for a young man to come and learn collecting, going with me 

 on the Shu* Giang trip, and being taught each day, but he has not come. Just 

 now I am meeting a few discouragements collecting. 



March 17. I was vaccinated for smallpox before starting this morning. 

 Travelled 90 li to Hgan 3ien or An Bien. Secured five birds, but only one 

 that was specially interesting* Passed a small lake on which were what I 

 think were grebes. The Chinese navigate this lake in tiny boats that can 

 hardly hold two people, and are much in danger of filling with water. I wounded 

 one bird, but it got away through its skill in diving . I got very few insects. 

 Before starting on this trip I mailed all the boxes that I had filled including 

 box No . 258 . V 



March 18. ^e travelled 120 li ho Pin %sif, or Flat Mountain. There is a 

 high mountain near here flat on top. This was a very long trip to take on such 

 a hot day. 100 li is a long day 1 s journey. Last night about 11:50 the messenger 

 j^iU Lin Shiang Bin came and knocked loudly on my door. He had a letter from Yang 



Fong Tsang who has killed two leopards, and has their skins and skeletons. They 

 are rrorth at least §75.00 gold. I have sent the messenger to tell Yang to bring 

 the specimens at once to Suifu. People have brought a lot of pressure on Yang 

 Fong Tsang to get him to sell the skins and bones. %mmal No. 187, 188 • 



March }9. Travelled 90 li to &hXL Giang, Yesterday and today I saw many 

 fields of growing opium, some of them in bloom. The poppies are the white 

 variety — that is, their flowers are white. The white poppies are said to yield 

 the best opium. 



Generally the ground covered on this trip is good collecting ground. This 

 time- it has been very poor. Probably the reason is that the weather is very hot 

 and dry. It rained hard at Suifu a few days before I .left. Ho rain fell this 

 side of An Bien. The ground is very dry and hard, and insects are very few. I 

 got four birds today at two shots, but they are not uncommon birds . 



The floods last year did a great deal of damage /to the towns along the 

 river, destroying many houses and temples. 



March 20. Secured a few good insects. 



March 21. Killed three birds and secured some more insects. I was invited 



