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- 16 - longest 60 li that I ever travelled. There are few inns on the way. My dinner consisted of three raw cucumbers and some tea that I purchased from a farmer. We are staying in the home of the captain of the local militia. He is treating us royally, and helping in every way possible. There is bright moonlight, to[[strikethrough]]m[[/strikethrough]]^[[n]]ight, so we can not secure night insects. We got a fair catch of insects today. The militia captain invited us to a fine Chinese meal tonight. He also gave me or traded to me a rare skin possibly of a lynx, which was killed in January 1928. It was killed on very high mountains south of Mupin. Mammal No. 272. I hear many stories about the Roosevelts, who got their golden-haired monkeys near th[[strikethrough]]e[[/strikethrough]]^[[is]] place. The Chinese say that they were exceedingly liberal with money. They also say that the Roosevelts had fine guns and were crack shots. It is said that one place robbers came to rob them, but that the brothers cocked their guns, and the robbers did not dare make the attack. It is said that the Chinese shoot ten odd shots to kill one monkey, but that the Roosevelts got a monkey practically every shot. These stories may or may not be true, but they are the stories that are being told. In a way the Mupin collecting trip is a failure. In a way it is a real and genuine success. The Mupin District is too vast and rich to cover in so short a time. In the time available I could have done better if I had known the country intimately. This trip is in a way a successful survey. I know far more about the district than I did. If I had spent all the time here at Gan^[[1]] Yang^[[2]] Ba^[[4]] or at Yao^[[2]] Gi^[[5]], or, still better, in Ga^[[4]] Dsi^[[2]] Geo^[[1]], I would have had a better catch than I have of mammals. As it is, I have a better catch of snakes than last year. I have the best catch of moths and insects, already, that I ever caught on one expedition, and the summer's work is not half over. To do the best work here, and get the best mammals as Roosevelts did, I should go two days farther up the highest mountains (elevation here is 5000 feet) and hunt there for at least one week. I have to teach for two weeks in a summer-training school beginning Aug. 1, allowing no time for delays of any kind, for robbers, rain, etc. I have only four days, including today to collect here at Gan Yang Ba. My plan is to send Yang Fond Tsang back here about October 1, to hunt here at least two months, probably three, then to go to Yao Gi to hunt about as long. He ought to get a fine and valuable catch of mammals and birds. I myself would like to spend two more summers in the Mupin district, one at Gan Yang Ba, and one near Yao Gi. I will do so if I can arrange it. Ju[[overwritten]]ne[[/overwritten]]^[[ly]] 21. This morning I climbed a hill so steep that we could only get to the top by holding on to bunches of grass roots, twigs, st[[strikethrough]]a[[/strikethrough]]^[[i]]cks, etc. I had a fi^[[n]]e shot at a mountain goat, but for the first time the Newton Highpower rifle failed to fire, and when I pulled the cartridge out, the bullet stuck in the gun. By the time the bullet was extracted, the goat had made a good get-away. We killed eleven birds and secured a fair catch of insects. Today we secured mammal no. 273, a water rat. The carpenter was hunting and went to the stream to get a drink. He saw the strange animal diving under the
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