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Chinese have only one name for the several species of small civets & are very poor naturalists & do not distinguish many mammals by distinct names. [[circled]]Aug 11[[/circled]] The tigers hunters A., C. + K. returned today from the monastery across the mountains without any tigers. They were not able to buy goats & could not entice the tigers without bait either to them or the traps. One came & took a dog which they had used as bait for the large trap. Day very humid without a breeze, I caught one of the large [[pachycum?]] in the monastery. [[encircled]]2[[/encircled]] Night very hot & oppressive without any breeze. We took up all the traps in the morning & packed the outfit for the