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entered the wood but they could not find it.  This evening at dark another muntjac barked from the opposite side of camp.  The bark is very loud & explosive.  Yesterday some of the hunters drove a serow thru the forest near camp but the cover was so thick that we could not see it pass.  One of the men thru a spear into its thigh as it passed within 10 yds of him.  This morning at daybreak a deer was heard barking & said to be a Sambur, but this was a mere guess.  Day partly overcast with a wind from the east but the night was clear & cold.
[[circled 11 [[/circled]] Last night at dark some native hunters returned with an old [[symbol: female]] Sambur of large size the skin & skull of which they sold us.  She was a nursing [[symbol: female]] the [[strikethrough]] breeding [[/strikethrough]] birth season being either [[strikethrough]] at [[/strikethrough]] in mid winter or else it is an all year affair.  She had no hoof glands [[strikethrough]] a fo [[/strikethrough]] but on the