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river is very high and muddy today, and all the s.treams are swollen. 



This morning I heard that a creek ahead of us had washed away its bridge. 

 There was no crossing the creek without a bridge. I said that we had a carpen- 

 ter with us, and so we would build a bridge, and ordered all the coolies to briig 

 along their loads and help. They were so confident that we couldn't build a 

 bridge that they didn't come. It was five li from the inn where they were to the 

 creek , and they thought they would have to carry back their loads to the inn again 

 for the night. One of the coolies had the carpenter's saw. Although he was 

 especially ordered to bring' the saw along, he did not come. With no tool but the 

 Smithsonian hunter's hatchet, the carpenter and I cut down trees and built a bridge 

 across that roaring stream, so that we have made our full stage today. Hot a nail 

 went into that bridge. It was done in a comparatively short time. The trees 

 that made the foundation were tied tightly together by ropes of tree bark made by 

 the car-center. The bridge is so strong that it will probably last a couple of 

 years at least. 



In some places the floods washed great rocks down from the hillsides onto 

 the road, and uprooted trees. 



We did not see a single bird worth shooting, and the day's catch of insects 

 was small . 



We expect to reach Mupin early tomorrow and to get away for a hunting trip 

 at Gan / Yang 3 - Ba^ the next day. 



About noon the oostal runner met us and gave me several letters, including 

 two from home. One letter from Shanghai told of the acceptance of an article of 

 mine on Image worship in China for publication in the Chinese Recorder. 



Frequently our road leads us across a precipice 50 to 100 feet high over- 

 hanging the river, with no fence on the outside of the road, and the road only 

 three or four feet wide. On both sides of the stream there are high mountains., 

 covered with forests. Often the sides of the mountains are perpendicular cliffs 

 or sheer precipices. 



Yesterday at one place we could hear the road, of great* rocks falling on the 

 opposite side of the river. 



July 19. % got started soon after daylight and reached Hupin in the early 

 afternoon. We stopped in an inn during a thunder shower, ^fter our arrival at 

 Mupin the weather settled down into a steady rain. 



It is hard to preserve some specimens in the summer time.- I worked for 

 quite a while this afternoon on the muskdeer skins and on some bird skeletons 

 where the maggots were busily working. I plan to go to Gang Yang Ba tomorrow 

 morning. The time for collecting in this district is altogether too short. 



Labelled box no. wrapped insects ^55, flies, 554, wrapped insects. 



July 20. We had the usual trouble in getting the coolies started this 

 morning. The coolies delayed to smoke opium etc., etc. We were told that it is 

 60 li from Mftpin here. We are now at Gan Yang B&. It seems to me that it is the 



