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longest 60 li that I ever travelled. There are few inns on the way. My dinner 

 consisted of three raw cucumbers and some tea that I purchased from a farmer. 

 We are staying in the home of the captain of the local militia. He is treating 

 us royally, and helping in every way possible . 



There is bright moonlight, tonight, so we can not secure night insects. We 

 got a fair catch of insects today. 



The militia captain invited us to a fine Chinese meal tonight. He also gave 

 me or traded to me a rare skin possibly of a lynx, which was killed in January 

 1928. It was killed on very high mountains south of lupin. Mammal No. 272. 



I hear many stories abo/ut the Roosevelts, who got their golden-haired monkeys 

 near th|T place, ■'•he Chinese say that they were exceedingly liberal with money. 

 They also say that the Roosevelts had fine guns and were crack shots. It is said 

 that one place robbers came to rob them, but that the brothers cocked their guns, 

 and the robbers did not dare make the attack. It is said that the Chinese shoot 

 ten odd shots to kill one monkey, but that the Roosevelts got a. monkey practically 

 every shot. These stories may or may not be true, but they are the stories that 

 are being told. 



In a way the Mupin collecting trip is a failure. In a way it is a real and 

 genuine success. The Mupin District is too vast and rich to cover in so short a 

 time. In the time available I could have done better if I had kno?/n the country 

 intimately. This trip is in a way a successful survey. I know far more about the 

 district than I did. If I had spent all the time here at Gan r Yang 3a or at -ao" 1 ^ 

 Gif or, still better, in Ga^Dsi Geo J I would have had a better catch than I have 

 of mammals. As it is, I have a better catch of snakes than last year. I have the 

 best catch of moths and insects, already, that * ever caught on one expedition, 

 and the summer's work is not half over. 



To do the best work here, and get the best mammals as Roosevelts did, I should 

 go two days farther up the highest mountains (elevation here is 5000 feet) and 

 hunt there for at least one week. I have to teach for two weeks in a summer-tr a in- 

 ing school beginning Aug. 1, allowing no time for delays of any kind, for robbers, 

 rain ^ etc. I have only four days, including today to collect here at Gan Yang Ba. 



My plan is to send Yang Fong Tsang back here about October 1, to hunt here 

 at least two months, probably three, then to go to ^ao Gi t 0 hunt about as long. 

 He ought to get a fine and valuable catch of mammals and birds. 



I myself would like to spend two more summers In the Mupin district, one at 

 Gan Yang Ba, and one near ^ao Gi. I will do so if I can arrange it. 



Juw 21 . This morning I climbed a hill so steep that % we could only get to 

 the top uy holding on to bunches of grass roots, twigs, stacks, etc. I had a fif|e 

 shot at a mountain goat, but for the first time the Newton Highpower rifle failed 

 to fire, and when 1 oulled the cartridge out, the bullet stuck in the gun. By the 

 time the bullet was extracted, the goat had made a good get-away. We killed eleven 

 birds and secured a fair catch of insects. 



.today we secured mammal no. 275, a water rat. The carpenter was hunting and 

 went to the stream to get a drink. He saw the strange animal diving under the- 



