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betelnut pain, other# on the bamboo of our cotta. 
Two sick men had to be put on orderlies 1 horses, One of them 
fainted. Wien relieved, he was carried by soldiers and natives making 
the trip pretty i ell. \ 
Wien we had asoended the high mesa south of the lake, vre were Joined 
by JJajor Msraey’s Infty. column that had started at daybreak to take a line 
of oottas west of us extending to Lake tanad. 
The marshes spread around us were alive with n«ron«» Bitterns, ^ark- 
oolored Ibises and dusky Mallards which latter could be distinguished in 
flight by the pure white color of the under side of wing* 
At Sauir, where we camped, Oenl*' Wood and Capt. !5cCoy shot duck a, 
water-hens, eto. Capt. MoCoy shot ray first speoimen of a grebe for me. 
13336 Orebe(male ?) adult. Sauir, Lake Lanao, Mindanao* P. I. 
April 9, 1904 . j, 
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April 11* 1904. 
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Malabang. 
Will arrive at Malabang early this afternoon. 
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