Viewing page 10 of 260

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

the new gray mice constituted our catch.  The mtn. slope we ascended was pine covered (P. massoniana) with a good coating of dry grass & some rhododendron trees.  At the summit (8000 ft.) we took lunch in a open dry grassy meadow.  Opposite us was a heavy forest of a laurel like rhododendron tree of large size & compact habit.  Several trees of another species bearing large umbels of deep red flowers was seen, also a species with single rose pink flowers.  At night we made camp in a grove of pines on a dry ridge at sunset near a small spring, the only place with water we could find.  There was no evidence of rodents on the hard soil two traps were set.  Night clear but not cold.

[[circled]] 17 [[/circled]]  The route led down the ridge & along the Shun pi River & then crossed it.  The rock formation was everywhere hard red sandstone & the soil a purple red & very clayey & hard.  Day clear & warm.  The country is everywhere covered by a fine growth of dry