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All inj7 native collectors are v/aging liard for an increase of 25 cents gold per 

 month in salary or wages. I have not yet agreed to give it. I«m afraid of rimning 

 collecting expenses up too high. 



The Chinese were very friendly on my last trip, on the whole. 



Dr. Crook has recently passed throi3gh Suifu to lachoiv. V/hen he sav/ the Smith- 

 sonian calipers and other instroments for talcing anthropometrical measurements, he 

 remarked that he formerly ^d some such instroments, hut that they were lost in a 

 robbery on the road to TatS.enlu. 



In west China we constantly run the risk of being robbed by brigands. I have 

 not been robbed yet, but may be at any time. In case I am I hope that the Smith- 

 sonian Institution will regard it as an ^mavoidable mishap. I always leave about 

 half the collecting outfit at home so that if I should lose half in a robbery I coulc 

 still go on collecting. I can do this with nearly everything but the guns. I leave 

 one doiable-barrelled shotgun at home at least. I have so far been able to avoid 

 robbery by using the utmost care and always having a good escort where they are 

 brigands. This adds to the rmning expenses but removes the necessity of~replaoing 

 valuable instruments. 



D. C 



Craham. 



