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the rice fields.  This lack of rodents [[strikethrough]] run [[/strikethrough]] is doubtless due to their extermination [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] by the Chinese for ages until all have disappeared even on hillsides. The temple we camped in at Kwang Tung was a Confuscious temple
It did not differ in architecture from Buddhist temples [[strikethrough]] except [[/strikethrough]] internally, the [[strikethrough]] cha [[/strikethrough]] halls have no idols only tablets.,  The Chinese keep a few zebu cattle but [[strikethrough]] not [[/strikethrough]] only for beef as they never milk them or use cows milk.  The grazing country which is vast here is unused & forms one of the great possibilities of the country

(14)  The 20 traps set last night for rodents were unmolested.  No runways were found altho there were fine brushy slopes on the old city wall where

Transcription Notes:
'Confuscious' for 'Confuscius'. [i.e. Confucius] Zebu - humped cattle