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knows the province well & he gave us much information about gamein Tonkin.  At 5 PM, we went motoring with Capt. Trowbridge who left at 7 P.M. for Haiphong.

(29)  The tunnel break on the railroad made it necessary for us to repack our largest luggage into 100 lbs. size so they can be carried by porters 300 yards around the tunnel, spent the morning at this repacking.  Spent the afternoon visiting the Jardin Botanique which is a large beautifully laid out park with a great number of trees but they are without labels.  In various parts of the park are caged animals.  We saw sun bears tigers, Felis temmincki,  monkeys, leopards, etc.  The upper end of the Petit Lac is filled by a great field of large leaved lotus which are now

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Felis temmincki - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_golden_cat Reviewed