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had a girdle of elephants tatooed about his waist & was tatooed below the knees also with figures of tigers. This is the first man I have seen tatooed below the knees to any extent. I collected another red rat & one of the short tailed Insectivores also a new small shrew a Pachyura. No rain fell today altho it was cloudy as usual with a heavy ground mist in the morning. Considerable opium is raised here altho we have seen no poppies. The Shans have little difficulty in bribing the Chinese officials to allow them to thus break the law. A few rupees is sufficient. A fair [[strikethrough]] is [[/strikethrough]] or large market is assembling in the village below here one day at fo chun where the market occurs only once in 3 years, a very unusual interval.
[[circled left]] 26 [[/circled left]] The natives who live here