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{Mu cheng lives 40 li beyond & lower down than camp.

new rat & 2 Microtus, one of which was very small (foot only 14 mm.) & new to us.

(8)  The night was cold with a heavy frost & some ice.  The day was clear & warm without a breeze.  A party of hunters came from the village 10 li away & hunted near camp for muntjac.
A fox was flushed near A who was with the hunters.  But by mistake he did not shoot at it.  A muntjac was heard barking.  More small mammals were secured.  The proboscis shrew, silver mole, a Micromys Red bellied squirrel & in that afternoon a Tupia like insectivore with naked tail & mouse like terrestrial feet.

(9)  The night was clear & very cold with heavy frost & thick ice.  It seemed the coldest camp in all China, colder than Hsiao-chung-tien where snow was abundant.  Two more of the peculiar, Tupia-like shrews