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fir groves near Däng Diong. At this town we stopped for lunch.  An old friend of Caldwell, a tiger hunter, said there were reports of serows on the mountain near by. Near the city is a small rocky hill a rendezvous for civets & small cats.  The monastery is situated up in a nook in the mountains in a small narrow valley, amid forest.  A fine stream of mountain water is piped to the monastery in bamboo pipes.  There are some 20 Chinese priest here who are very friendly.  They gave us the whole upper tier of buildings to camp in.  During the evening & again at dawn they beat drums in the temple & went thru mistic rites to drive away evil spirits.  Our road led across the Keng Diong river over stone bridges of granite.  Small temples of peculiar architecture were to be seen in the fields bordering the road above Däng Koing.

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