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feet & some wearing skirts of the common blue serge. On the outskirts of the village two parties of small ravens were seen picking the skeleton of some domestic animal. I shot several of these & [[strikethrough]] W [[/strikethrough]] Li-wi carried them followed by a great host of cawing ravens thru the village. The villagers stared at us in groups & were much amused by my shooting doves with the 22 automatic. The valley of Hsiao-Mung-tung is a picturesque affair, on all sides tall spire like mountains [[strikethrough]] rise [[/strikethrough]] bound it separated by deep narrow passes. The forest is chiefly pine in block in a semi cultivated state. [[circled]] 4 [[/circled]] We continued our way along a ridge thru farms & scattering [[strikethrough]] trees [[/strikethrough]] groves of pines & alders. After tiffin we descended into a small valley to a town Ha-tien or Ta-tien where the