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& set two wolf traps on the trail.  The natives were plowing the hillside nearby & were at night camped in the field under light bamboo huts with their open grazing nearby.  They do not live more than a half mile away but save time by camping in the fields I suppose.
[[circled]] 13 [[circleld]]  My walk out to the traps set on the Sambar trail was in vain.  Only one fresh track that of a muntjac was seen on the road thru the plowed fields.  A caught one of the long eared rats first taken at Ta-shin-tang.  The hunters did not come today so we had to content ourselves with skinning small mammals, 40 of which we had on hand.  
The [[strikethrough]] p [[strikethrough] district here was once more thickly populated when poppies were the legitimate crop.  Now since the opium embargo many of the fields have grown up into weedy places.  The hill crop here seems to be chiefly corn or maze.  This district is