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made of bamboo, the pillars & thatch excepted. I caught a large red spiny rat not like the one taken on the Mekong first but larger. Several civets were trapped today.
[[circled left]] 24 [[/circled left]] Another red rat was secured in the forest below camp, also one of the gray spiny mice as well as Pachyuras & large Epimys. A secured a small genet in a steel trap.The birds here are all very shy as every native carries a gun & soot game for the pot. Small birds are few in numbers & specie and are also very shy. Today while shooting at some red bellied squirrels I flushed a pair of large black Rebetas out of a high  tree. They looked as large as monkeys as they scampered away.
[[circled left]] 25 [[/circled left]] One of our hunters brought in a large ♂ gray monkey which he had shot. This man