January 23. today is the old Chinese lew Year's Day. Last night fire- 

 crackers were exploding occasionally all night , so that is was difficult 

 to sleep. loday nearly 100 people came to wish me a happy Hew Year. I 

 managed to write out a report on the artifacts secured in the Elating 

 cave -tombs. 



tV\\aL0 She Hua Miar aborigine who sold me that aborigine coat which I sent 



recently has "been staying in my barn with his family because he was too 

 poor to rent a place elsewhere. He seems' to have almost gone crazy, and 

 became very brutal to his wife and daughter, so that I had to send him 

 away and to forbid him to come back on the place again. This morning he 

 tried to strangle his little (laughter. 



January 24. Yesterday and today many Chinese came to wish me a happy Mew Year. 

 I have also spent some time on the streets and in the temples and in the 

 burial grounds noting the Chinese customs. I have taken a few pictures • 



Last night I developed two films , using film-tanks, and the aprons 

 sold by the Eastman Kodak. Company. One apron was mine, and one the Smith- 

 sonian's . Evidently the Szeohuan climate has been hard on these aprons. 

 Mine completely went to pieces, and the Smithsonian apron cracked in one 

 place. I have now filled fifty-six boxes with specimens, all of which 

 will be mailed by parcel post within a few days. 



Jan. 25. Hained during the night. Caen Gih Uen returned with an average catch. 

 He has a, snake which he thinks is peculiar, but it is in a blue bottle and 

 I can not see it or get it out. Ee has frogs, snails, shrimps, etc. 

 Manama 1 Ho , 44. 



Jan. 26. Chen Qih Uen went to the neighboring hills ij trap. 



Jan. 27. 7ord has come that civil war is certain down the river. I will there- 

 fore delay further shipment of specimens until things quiet down again. I 

 am sorry to do so. We will go on collecting. 



Packed box ITo. 57, contents man holding two conical jugs, thumb ex- 

 posed, fingers inside. Pointed bottom. (Illustration). 



Jan. 28. Chen Gdh Uen came in sick with a very bad cold. He has to go to bed 



until he recovers. Mammal lo. 45. Filled box Ho. 58. pottery. 58, value 

 |3.00. 



Jan. 29. It is quite cold today. J he netter Chen is improving. I visited the 

 site of the old Suifu that existed nearly two thousand years ago. I took 

 a picture of the old pagoda. I climbed up the pagoda to the top on the 

 inside. I visited a number of old tombs of probably Ming Dynasty times. 

 They were empty excepting for refuse recently thrown in. 



'I?he old pagoda is composed of great bricks Zjt inches thick, 8§- inches 

 wide, and about or nearly two feet long. In the pagoda there are two kinds 

 of arches. The true arch (illustration) and the other arch (illustration). 



In the burial tombs the shape was square (illustration), about ten feet by 



