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country.  Red muntjac & one serow skin was also seen & purchased.  A leopard skin was in the market also.  Sambar, muntjac, boar, bear, & leopard were said to occur 5 days south near the Burma border.  The [[?former]] Shans here wear the usual blue serge, the women wearing skirts & turbans with bare unbound feet.  They are a short stocky people with large heads & homely features.
The day here was a market day but the chief products seemed to be bundles of [[strikethrough]] coarse [[/strikethrough]] horse-tail rushes, grasses, etc. with some turnip tops, & a broad short coarse tasting banana.  The Shans here are all said to be suspicious of strangers fearing that they are opium detectives.  They are said to hunt Sambar by driving with dogs & by firing the dry grass & driving with huntsmen.  Today I tried some of the tobacco our men smoke.  This fine shredded [[strikethrough]] like [[/strikethrough]]