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In the morning I looked thru the trees but could find no chipmunks or squirrels.  At our camp were several of the spiny white stemmed naked [[strikethrough]] white [[/strikethrough]] Erythrina trees bearing red blossoms at their topmost branches only.  The way led down the valley along the stream & then over a low spur & down into the Nanting valley.  We reached the river at 11 A.M. & were ferried across in two canoes lashed together.  The river is rather rapid dirty stream with sand banks.  The valley is several miles broad & flat covered by a heavy growth of tall cane grass 10 feet high similar to [[strikethrough]] that [[/strikethrough]] the elephant grass of Uganda at the Nile.  A few rice fields are the only breaks in this jungle.  The lack of inhabitants is due to the perulous malaria which reigns here in summer. The sides of the valley are steep mountains or hills of hard red clay