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between the Chinese and the aborigines, and troops are being sent out from 

 Chengtu. That means that our men cannot go into Mupin at this time. Never mind, 

 we 1 11 get good white panda skins sometime, somewhere, somewhen, and somehow. 



There is quite a boxer uprising on the Yunnan border, and troops have 

 been sent out. This might delay Yang Fong Tsang. 



Mar. 7. Killed two birds . 



Mar. 8. Purchased small fish. 



Mar. 9. Hard rain nearly all day. Took an anthropometrical measurement 

 Received mantles and anthropometrical blanks from the Smithsonian. 



March 10. Filled box 531, shrimp; 552, shrimp; 535 vase; 534, clay 

 images; 555 animal skin and clay images; 556 eel. I received a letter from Mr. 

 Franck, about Lai, the collector, who is working at Chengtu. 



Yang Fong Tsang is overdue. 



Today I entertained the man who was magistrate at Mupin last year. 

 He said Dr. Crook offered seventy dollars for a white panda skin, and that when 

 the aborigine hunter heard about it, he took the panda skin out and sold, it to 

 Dr. Crook for the Roosevelts and the Field Museum. I would have gotten the skin 

 for twenty dollars. This means that I must pay a much larger price for a skin, 

 if I am to get one at all. 



Mar. 11. Filled box 557, old Chinese vase. M ailed all the boxes 

 already filled. Purchased a small rabbit, mammal no. 371. Worked over accounts, 

 12-13. I got some beetles out of a very hard-wooded pumalo tree. Pack for the 

 trip to Ngan Bien. 



Mar. 14. Travelled to %an Bien, arriving 5 P. M. Got six birds and 

 some insects. The small, orange-tipped, white butterflies were out. There was 

 a large, rare, yellow one out, but we did not catch it. 



