tryiiig to protect ♦ 



Marcii 11. 



Clien (Jih Uen canie in not well and with a poor catcli. He says 

 the bojrs on the street call him a foreign slave and one who is 

 destroying his coimti^y "because he is collectin<g specimens. He 

 feels -upset about it. With imny here anything or anybody foreign 

 is an. eneix^ of China and doii^ a work to destroy China. 



March 12-15. 



'look an ine>rpensi¥e trip to Li Chuangj^ 60 li domi the Yangtse 

 RiTer. Secured 14 birds and 2 small mammals, los. 85-86. Some of 

 the spring and snixmer birds are arriving, but I did not get any 

 uncoiiMon birds. 



March 18. 



'Ihe comunists liave become so bold and active that the 

 militarists nave begun executing. One youi^ inan was executed on the 

 main street of Suifu and is being left there unburied three days as 

 a spectacle to warn others, it is reported tlmt others are being 

 executed in the outlying country • Doubtless the attacks on our com- 

 pound wall and house have been instigated by communists* 2hey 

 attack foreigners in order to niake tx'ouble for the officials. I 

 have sent Chen Gih Uen, well supplied ??ith materials, to YachOYr to 

 collect for about two months. Ihere v/ill be a forei^pier with him 

 and he v/ill cover a wide district. Yacho?/ should yield excellent 

 specimens. There will be another Chinese helping him, and he will 

 take in the town of Moupin. 



March 19* 



Filled boxes 64-70 with specimens. It is not possible to mail 

 these now, as parcels can not at liresent be carried by the post office 

 to Shanglxai. 



March £0. 



lOoday I took a long collecting trip to the Suifu hills. I 

 climbed down to the side of a steep cliff and looked into a deep cave 

 ■ where leopards have been seen. Later I climbed by way of the inside 

 stairway to the top of the black pagoda and stood up on top of it. 

 Secured six birds and some insects • Filled box Ho. 71, bird bones. 

 Sixteen comirEunists were captured in. Duifu yesterday evening. It is 

 reported that the coimmmists were planning to bum the city of Chung- 

 king, but that a few nundred were taken prisoners and the plot frustrated. 

 !?he black pagoda from our house registers 142 degrees. 



March 21. 



Shis is my birthday, but none in Suifu knows it, so it lias been 

 very quiet. 



March 22. 



Soday I entertained at a- foreign dinner General Hu, one of the 

 highest officers in Yunnan Province, the two chief military? officers 



