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I am to reach Yin Shin Wan, where Yang and Ho are, earlier tomorrow afternoon. I have sent messengers to them to be ready to travel when we arrive, and will send a messenger ahead tomorrow morning.

Aug. 29. We reached Yin Shin Wan by noon. I have Yang Fong Tsang all of my ammunition excepting the high  power rifle ammunition, nearly all my cotton, some wire for mammals, some labels, some kerosene, arsenic, etc. and brought with me all the animals and birds they have caught. We reached our destination, the Yang Tsi Lin Pass, by four o'clock. Tomorrow I reach Kuanshien and Sept. 1 should reach Chengtu.

I always carry a very light load of things most necessary in collecting. I hire a carrier with specific directions that the load must always be within easy reach. The man the head coolie hired to carry is a weak opium smoker and he has been continually dropping behind. I have constantly urged and coaxed and even scolded and threatened. This morning four cliff pigeons dropped on the road ahead of me. I could have killed them at one shot. I turned and reached for the gun, to find the coolie a quarter mile away in the rear. I have him a couple of cracks with a bamboo stick. He grabbed a carpenter's saw and whacked at me probably a dozen times. I managed to ward off all the blows without even being touched, and he broke the handle of his saw. I fired him at once and now have an excellent carrier.