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Later.--The sun came out, and we travelled north-west towards Ga^[[4]]dze^[[3]] Geo^[[1]], reaching the top of a mountain 11000 feet high. We killed only two bir^[[d]]s, but one at least is a new variety, and both may be. We killed two or three in dense underbrush where they could not be found. That is a constant experience this summer. I want to camp on a very high mountain and collect there a few days, then collect directly south of Moupin where the Roosevelts get the goldenhaired monkeys. I am offering $8.00 Mexican, $4.00 gold, as a reward if a white bear is killed, or if I am led where I can kill one. The Roosevelts offered $50.00 Mexican, I am told. We got a fair catch of insects today. We are using the Smithsonian tents a good deal this summer, and could not get along without them. We got another snake today.

Some of the poor coolies have only an oilcloth under them, and have nothing by the way of bedding over them, and it is cold. We will probably be better off tomorrow night, although it will be higher and colder.

I am hoping to get over a hundred boxes of natural history specimens this summer.

We had a steep, hard climb up the mountain this afternoon.

July 10. We are now at the altitude of 13400 feet. There are forests of rhododendrum and fir all around us. We got eight birds today, one of a new variety.

July 5-7. I collected on a mountain east of Yao [[underlined]] Si [[/underlined]] ^[[Gi]] and would have gone on to a higher and better hunting ground, but the territory was infested with robbers. Today we almost literally stepped into a robbers' nest. I had hoped to work here two whole days and three nights, but the robbers are too near, and we must clear out of this place tomorrow morning. There are "Robbers, robbers, everywhere."

We set out nearly every trap we have tonight. The netters are going to use the lanterns until daylight catching moths.

July 11. Secured five mammals, numbers 261-265.

It rained very hard all last night. The rain came down in torrents. It was still raining at daybreak, and continued to rain off and on all day. On account of the brigands, I told the coolies to pack up and start down the mountain. They thought they would take advantage of me, and demanded higher wages. I am paying them fifty cents Mexican a day. I told them the wages were agreed on before we started, and there was no talking wages now. We would simply move down the mountain. We are now camped at the elevation of 10000 feet, with woods in all directions. I got a strange pheasant, and shot at a musk deer at long range. Apparently I hit the deer, but the wound was not serious. Chen Gih Yuen and some of the coolies got into a row, which I had difficulty in settling. We are getting short of food, and sent a coolie into Yao-Gi to bring food, and to tell the carpenter to come up with more insect boxes and his gun. He has been making boxes. They can not be purchased, and the local carpenters generally make very poor boxes.

Tonight, as usual, we are getting a fine catch of moths, and it is raining.

I have had a surplus of foreign paper every year, and thought I had plenty this

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