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in Chinese homes (as a guest) and in G hinese inns. The Chinese have little 



conception of it. You try to work in a Chinese inn, am- the first thing you 



know the room is packed, and crowds are peeking through the cracks and looking 

 through the windows* 



We got a mammal today, a squirrel, colored differently from those on 

 Mt. Omei. Mammal no. 508 . 



We got one snake today, and several birds. 1 collected some fossils. 



Sept. 4. We travelled 70 li to Tsanglinshien . The village of 

 j?eo-J ai-Geo is almost directly south of Tsang Linshien, which is in a general 

 southern direction from ^uifu. ?fe crossed a high pass or mountain, then 

 descended by a steep road to the plain. The general lay of the land between 

 here and the Yunnan Border is approximately this ®ts*j/ ^'^ts^^ j t . &£?o 



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When we were coming down the high mountain towards Tsanglinshien, I 

 noticed that there was no one else on that road, either going or coming. 

 After reaching this city I learned that both leopards and robbers are fierce 

 at the top of the high mountain between here and Tseo-Jia-Geo. Leonards 

 were fiercer and mo^e common over a wide territory than they have been 



known to be before, and probably hundreds are killed every year in the country 



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south of Suifu, called the Lan Lut Shien District, or the ! Bouth Six Townships. 1 ' 



If I had tried to get in from Tsanglinshien to %& Tseo-Jai-Geo, the 

 official would have forbidden me. It is therefore lucky that I went in from 

 Kongshien. 



We got a fine catch of night moths last night. We got some good moths 

 tonight. We could have worked longer and secured more night moths tonight 

 but last night we worked until nearly daylight, then travelled all day today, 

 so the netter ^ai and I had to catch up sleep tonight. 



