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Sent part of our outfit to Talifu in advance today, some 14 loads @ 3.00 per load for the trip of 3 days.  They were a form of the small olive, red bellied species taken at To-Kien.  Several of the large bats appeared at dusk & I shot one.  They are a large species of Hipposiderus.

(9)  We departed today at 11 A.M. from the hotel with 16 loads the remaining part of our outfit.  Page kindly gave us his house boat to cross the lake in which saved us 7 miles of bad rocky road out of the city.  We left the hotel in chairs & reached the lake in 45 minutes.  Here we met the foreign commissioner Mr. Shee who was on with the governor on a pleasure trip.  Day rainy.  Rising above the lake on the opposite shore is a great cliff several hundred feet high.  On the face of it is built a small monastery in a very dangerous ledge overlooking the abyss.  The ride down to the lake was thru fields of ripening rice.  The upper end of the lake is shallow & dotted by patches of water grass, making