to the Chinese secretary of our church's social guild* 



3o far the Chinese have manifested more friendship to me than even 



in 



evious times at ouifu* 



I went out into the country and secured three birds on which the tax: 



mist and I are practicing. 



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Unpacked some of the collecting outfit. It just about takes up one room 

 of our house. I keep this room locked all the time. 



"ov. 24. Secured two oirus. 



ov. 25. The aborigine hunter arrived with 32 birds and four masaaals ana five large 

 bottles and several small bottles of snakes. He will have to be instructed 

 during the next few days so he can do a far better kind of work in skinning. 



Spent the evening labelling and rewrapping the specimens, rue snakes 

 look very interesting. There is room for a great deal of improvement in the 

 care of the specimens. 



ilov. 26. loday we have been teaching the taxidermist Ho and the aborigine collector 

 fan 0, Fonp Team? nor to take care of mammal and bird specimens, there is great 

 improvement , but we have not reached perfection yet. We nave been practicing 



on rats and paglish sparrows . 



Nov. 27. Taxidermist and aborigine collector practiced on a rat . Discussed outfit 

 and collecting with aborigine. 



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Toaay I shot nine birds in seven shots on which the aborigine collector 

 practiced , 



• 2he ola collector Chen Gin Uen arrived with a small collection ready to 

 begin work. He had some insects he had collected on the way. He begins work 

 tomorrow. I received today a letter from Dr. eetmore and the first letter 

 from my family since leaving Victoria. 



Hov. 29. Yang Foag Tseng the aborigine today started home to renew collecting, and 



today Chen Gih Uen renewed his work of collecting. He will net and trap. To- 

 day I also wrapped my first package of specimens , three mammal skins and some 

 small snakes collected by Yang Fong Tsangm Box Ho. 1. 



Hov. 30. Purchased a live mammal, resembling a coon. It was very fat, and it was 

 a very hard job to get the fat off the skin. The skinner worked over half a 

 day on this specimen and I spent all the time I could spare, (mammal Ho. 7} 



Dec. 1. Sailed the first box of specimens. 



Dec. 2. Mailed boxes two and three. Collector Chen came in with four rats he had 



