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One of the common large shade trees about villages is the Banyan, a species without aerial roots to any great extent.  Grass & other sorts grew about springs on the hillside.  The trees consisted of a small pine, a wide leaved spruce with the foliage of a yew tree & barriboo.  A great variety of other trees grew in places lower down but the species was not familiar to me.  Reached the camp at Fortsing about 5 P.M. and found it pitched under a large tree near some Chinese houses on the north side of the valley.  Andrews & his wife, Henry Caldwell & his son [[Olivier?]] were there.  They had had several chances at tigers but were in each case unfortunate.  At Longtom Pass a tiger had killed a dog near their camp & then left part of it which they used for bait.  [[strikethrough]] but [[/strikethrough]] The tiger returned & took the bait but failed to spring the trap.  Another tigeress & a small cub but was seen by one of the men but he failed to shoot the cub owing to fear of the mother.  Very few of the Chinese here 

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