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grass beneath the scattered pines. No cattle to graze it down were seen & only a few small villages and farm were seen. At 5 P.M. we reached a village situated on a ridge in the pine forest & here we camped on a narrow grassy ridge. The place was called Peh-ti-ping (White earth flat).
[[circled]] 18 [[/circled]] Our catch consisted of 4 gray mice 2 Microtus & 3 Epimys (small) From the camp the road climbed up the ridge thru pine forest for 2 hours. At 10 A.M. we reached the summit where another village Sha-sung-shoo was perched. The soil here was a soft black loam & the hillsides were covered by a heavy growth of [[strikethrough]] furze [[/strikethrough]] myrtle like trees, [[strikethrough]] apparen [[/strikethrough]] having every appearance of being ideal mammal trapping. One of the commonest bushes thru the country we have been travelling is a broad leaved briar or [[underline]] Rubus [[/underline]]. A fir with persistent long upright cones & the foliage of a [[?]] has become a common tree. White pine has also been seen.