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May 20, 1904* 
The Buluan River is becoming a swift and narrow stream, up which we 
proceed a mile or*.two and oamp arjong some ooooanut and other trees. The 
Infantry column under Captain Devore reached this camp at 6 o'clook P, M, 
yesterday. There are aores of bean vine about this place. 
May 21, 1904, 
Left Buluan early in the morning in a large Moro vinta for a trip, which 
lasted three hours, up the Buluan River to the Lake Buluan and returning. 
River water very sulphurous. On the margin were patches of tule rush, lotus. 
Polygonum, buck-bean, white water lily, senna, sedge, ooarse clump fern, 
Moros eat the petiole of the lotus—the tender base—as well as the nuts 
which taste like ohestnuts. Clumps of tall cane-grass. Plume-like ferns 
in beds along the banks. Many species of grass. Of Polygonum I see several 
speoies. Elephant -ear. Some Moro houses, with banana and ooooanut 
trees, 8pent the rest of the day in our pretty camp at Buluan, Two 
Infantry oompanies maroh, by trail, in hours. Measured a crocodile 
(11 feet) that a soldier had shot. 
May 2:’, 1904, 
The troops remained In campu at* Buluan, Set out in vintas up the 
Buluan River to Lake Buluan, On reaching the lake it was oom-only noted 
that heads of great Crocodiles would rise gently to the snrfaoe and lie 
perfectly etill. This lake fairly swarms with crocodiles. General Wood 
Bounded and gave me mud from the lake bottom which contained many small shells 
that I preserved, There are no large native villages on Lake Buluan; but there 
is a large population distributed around the lake margin in scattered houses. 
We net some of Enooh*s people moving away in boats beoause they were afraid 
