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Today we secured 3 birds.  We are spending the night at Den Shiang Uin.  The altitude is 8100 feet, approximately

There was a heavy wind today which made our catch of insects smaller, but we secured 3 birds and 2 snakes.

I measured a "black-boned" Lolo or Noso today.  They call themselves Black-boned people and consider themselves the Elite.  There are white-boned Lolos who are part Chinese.  He was darker than any Chinese or Chuan Miao I have measured.

July 24.  Today we travelled 100 li to the town of Lo^[[2]] Gu^[[3]], the elevation of which is about 6500 feet.  We secured 4 birds. We passed through a village that had been looted, the houses burnt, and the people, Chinese, taken away as captives by the Lolos.  Some of the captives have been ransomed, while others have not and are still in captivity.

We arrived here at 4:30 P.M. and just missed a very heavy rain and thunderstorm.  It would have drenched us and our things.

I have 14 coolies.  There are 3 collectors and skinners.  I make 18.  Part of the time I have had an escort of 15 soldiers and [[underline]] yumen [[/underline]] (?) ^[[Yamen]] runners, making a total of 34 in the expedition.  "Safety first" is my motto, for the Smithsonian Institution cannot afford to lose the collecting outfit, and neither the Smithsonian Institution nor I can pay a ransom of 2,000 or 3000 dollars Mexican.

The military official at Den^[[1]] Shiang^[[4]] Uin^[[2]], where we stayed last night, is very friendly.  He reports that in the woods about the town there is plenty of wild game and that he can secure the cooperation of the "black-boned" Lolos in securing game.  I may go back to that town and hunt and collect a few days after we have worked at [[underline]] Ying [[/underline]] ^[[Ning]]yuenfu. Then I want to work in the territory of the friendly Lolos near Fu Lin before returning to Suifu.

The rice grown in the highest altitudes is red instead of white.  The white rice will not grow there.

The "black-bone" ^[[boned]] Lolos seem much darker than the Chinese.  They burn their dead instead of burying them.

Many things about the Lolos and the Fan people in this section remind me of Tibet.

Not a few Chinese wear Lolo clothing made and worn or sold by the Lolos or Nosos.

The Lolos are heavy drinkers of liquor.  They are very often begging money to buy it with.

[[margin]] [[red cross symbol]] [[/margin]] The dragonflies and some of the other insects found here seem different from those in Central Szechuan.

On this trip I am eating very little foreign food. I eat Chinese rice and vegetables with my Chinese collectors, using chopsticks.  I supplement this with carnation milk, cookies, and fruit canned in Szechuan.  This cuts down the food-loads. I am getting along as well as I would on foreign food.  I am not using