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A flock of 7 green-ringed teal were seen here & 5 shot but no geese or other ducks were seen. White herons & white ringed bitterns were common. No tupias or squirrels have been seen. At midday the weather is really hot at midday & the sun disagreeably so. Many porters bearing long bundles of sugar cane have been met going toward Yung Chang. The cane is sold for eating raw. Where it is grown it is made into brown sugars & a clear sort of gin called wine by the Chinese. I have just discovered that what I thought was a tree cactus is really a Euphorbia of the caddabra sort. In cutting a stem a profuse milky juice [[strikethrough]] strea [[/strikethrough]] flowed forth. This is the plant which has a few spatulate yellow fleshy leaves at the apex of the thorny [[strikethrough]] stem [[/strikethrough]] ribbed stems. At some of the villages on the

Transcription Notes:
"caddabra" should be spelled "cadabra"