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Dined at Wildens, the French consul Bode & Mengle were there & the French doctor, but Wildens wife was still in bed with a broken ankle from a fall. Wilden has a [[?]] pet Malay bear which is quite tame & in charge of [[female symbol]] Annamite. (7) Page of the Standard Oil got us a pack tram to Tak-fu. We send on 1 to packs to be deposited there. The method of packing animals used here is quite unique. The saddles are a wooden affair with cleats running transversely. The loads are first lashed to a [[?broad]] framework a tree & then the two packs with the tree are lifted onto the saddle & fitted into the [[inside?]] of the cleats on the saddletrees. There is no rope used over the pack which