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arrived before bedtime with a telegram & some letters.  One [[underlined]] Micromys [[/underlined]] & a dull red brown Salamander comprised our catch.  The road ascended all day.  At 5 P.M. were well in virgin forest on a high ridge covered by forest, bamboo thickets & dry grass & weeds.  Great cliffs of gray limestone could be seen peaking out of the forest.  The forest had no pines or evergreens in it being green leaved trees of laurel, evergreen oaks, figs etc. & [[strikethrough]] somewhat [[/strikethrough]] tropical in character.  The climate was cool at noon & frosty at night, the altitude at least 7000 feet.  The forest was damp, the trees & rocks overgrown by moss.  Small traps were set about camp which was pitched 40 li from Mu-cheng in a open meadow at the head of a forested ravine with great limestone cliffs looming up out of the forested ridges above camp.  Before going to bed we looked at our traps & had 20 mammals; chiefly a gray small Apodemus new, a