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- 17 - water, and occasionally reappearing in the same spot, He went to the spot, and when the mammal came out, he grabbed it and threw it onto the shore. We could not pull the bone out of the tail. We caught a large garter snake, exactly like those caught at Suifu. I did not know this snake was to be found so high. Labelled box 355, insects; 356, insects. I am a little under the weather--- very strenuous work, and not very good food. July 22, 1929. We travelled up Shiao^[[3]] Geo^[[1]] to San^[[1]] Dao^[[4]] Pin^[[2]], where we pitched our three tents. We are now beyond any human habitation, at the elevation of 6500 feet. I set a few traps. Young Fong Tsang with one local hunter-guide is hunting on lower altitudes. I have six local hunters, the ones who helped the Roosevelts get the golden-haired monkeys. The golden-haired monkeys are at a much higher altitude, and I would need four or five more days than I can spare to go up there. I have to hurry out to Mt. Omei to teach in a summer training school. We are to hunt here two days. Tomorrow we will divide into two parties, one hunting on each side of the canyon. We did not get many insects today, but those we did get seem very interesting. Labelled box no. 357, insects. July 23. Secured two small mammals in the traps, mammals 274, 275. Both Yang Fong Tsang and Chen Gih Uen are after mammals too. We divided into two parties, one without dogs, and one with five dogs and several hunters. The party without dogs, which included me, went hunting after a black bear which has been appearing on a hillside recently. We saw tracks and signs, but not the bear. As to the other party, the dogs chased out three or four small deer or mountain goats. Mammals here when chased by dogs make for the creeks. Two of our hunters were waiting near the creek to shoot the mammals. A man was working on an open space cutting grass, when the four mammals started across the open space for the creek. This man tried to kill them with a club. The result was that the mammals swerved into the woods and did not go down to the creek. They were not seen afterwards. During the past few days, on account of the full moon, moths have hardly been coming to the lanterns at all. Note. There are five valleys or creeks coming together at or near Yao-Gi, and not three. From right to left in their order they are Liu Loh Geo, To Dao Chiao Geo, Ma Whuang Geo, Ga Dse Geo, Li B Geo. July 24. Secured three small mammals in traps, Nos. 276-278. One had its head chewed off by ants or some other creatures. Chen Gih Uen has trapped five mammals, no. 279-283. The hunters and I have had such poor luck and success in securing large mammals that we have gone back to Gan Yang Ba, and concluded the hunting for the present. There is no use throwing good Smithsonian money down an empty tunnel. The foliage is so dense, the grass so high, and there are so many people around that this is the poorest time of the year to hunt large mammals. We leave for Mupin tomorrow, and for
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