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trying to protect.

March 11.
   Chen Gih Uen came in not well and with a poor catch.  He says the boys on the street call him a foreign slave and one who is destroying his country because he is collecting specimens.  He feels upset about it.  With many here anything or anybody foreign is an enemy of China and doing a work to destroy China.

March 12-15.
   Took an inexpensive trip to Li Chuang, 60 li down to Yangtse River.  Secured 14 birds and 2 small mammals, Nos. 85-86.  Some of the spring and summer birds are arriving, but I did not get any uncommon birds.

March 18.
   The communists have become so bold and active that the militarists have begun executing.  One young man 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 that others are being executed in the outlying country.  Doubtless the attacks on our compound wall and house have been instigated by communists.  They attack foreigners in order to make trouble for the officials.  I have sent Chen Gih Uen, well supplied with materials, to Yachow to collect for about two months.  There will be a foreigner with him and he will cover a wide district.  Yachow 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 present be carried by the post office to Shanghai.

March 20.
   Today 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 No. 71, bird bones.  Sixteen communists were captured in Suifu yesterday evening.  It is reported that the communists were planning to burn the city of Chungking, but that a few hundred were taken prisoners and the plot frustrated.  
   The black pagoda from our house registers 142 degrees.

March 21.
   This is my birthday, but none in Suifu knows it, so it has been very quiet.

March 22.
   Today I entertained at a foreign dinner General Hu, one of the highest officers in Yunnan Province, the two chief military officers