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this land the first I had seen.  Tall fan palms were everywhere in the landscape.  The natives use caribous for plowing field.  After these great buffalo are seen carrying a herd boy or a child on their backs.  The morning was rainy with a heavy downpour at 8 a.m.  Weather cool with a good breeze during the morning.  Birds seen were the common small bittern which has white rings seen only when in flight.  When resting is a brown [[strikethrough]] under [[/strikethrough]] colrg & difficult to see.  The white necked raven was also common & a white headed brown kite.  A small black cormorant inhabited ponds & rice fields.  About the houses bamboo & areca palms were planted.  The ponds by the wayside were in places covered by Grean lotus leaves & the large pink flowers.  The women of the Annanites were seen

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