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So many friends called last night that I went to bed at 1:30 A.M. I'm pretty sleepy.

Near the top of the pass I saw in a basket on a pole the head of a robber who had robbed and killed a postman.  The magistrate used this method to warn others.

Used the gasolene lantern tonight and secured some good night moths.  We are getting some interesting wasps and bees.

I think that a lot of the insects have died for lack of water between Chin^[[1]] Chi^[[1]] Shien^[[4]] and Fu^[[4]] Lin^[[2]].

July 19. Travelled 70 li, much of it uphill, to So^[[1]] ma^[[3]] Tsang^[[2]].

We have had great success with insects last night, today, and tonight.

It rained hard last night, and we had a heavy shower this morning.

We are in a country now where there is plenty of rainfall, and myriads of flies.  We are spending the night at So Ma Tsang where the altitude is 8200 feet.

July 20. This morning it rained hard just before daylight, and we had a hard time waking up the coolies.  We went 70 li to Liao^[[4]] E^[[1]] Pin^[[2]] which is about 6800 in altitude.  We secured three small birds and many insects.

A Chinese overtook us and informed us that the robbers on the Da Shiang Lin pass got out of sight when we arrived but came back at once and robbed other travellers.

Today we crossed a mountain pass 8500 feet in altitude.

We are in a country of Lolos who call themselves No-So, and also of Shi^[[1]] Fan^[[1]] tribes.  There is really plenty of danger of being robbed by tribes people, but I am taking every precaution.

My working hours are from about 5 A.M. to from 10:30 to 1:30 at night. I get pretty sleepy sometimes.

At the top of the Da Shiang Lin pass there is wonderful scenery westward, but I was so interested in what the robbers and the soldier escort might do that I forgot all about looking at the scenery.

July 21.  We are now in a territory where the Lolos are very much feared.  They may appear and rob and kill at any time.  Yesterday a woman told me she had been a captive among the Lolos for two years.  Today a Chinese woman, evidently in much mental distress, knocked her head on the ground and told me that three of her children were captives among the Lolos (or Nosos).  She had no money to ranson them.  Just as I wrote this sentence this village became excited.  The Lolos have come just outside this village and have shot 10 odd shots. The soldiers have prepared to fight them and drive them away.  This is real business, dead in earnest. Today I