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much like a ^[[red]] [[game??]] in coloration. We have heard the cooing in the bush nearly every day but they are too wary to shoot easily. Not a trap has been stolen here altho the natives have seen them often. They are more honest than the Chinese & Tibetan tribes who stole traps on sight on all occasions. Their honesty is doubtless due to the wildness of the country & lack of civilization to corrup them. Every man here carries a gun for protection, muzzle loaders, bolt action rifles, Winchesters of ancient type [[strikethrough]]etc[[/strikethrough]], besides a long sword in a wooden sheath tucked under his belt. At dusk the Shan hunter returned with 2 ♀ Gibboons of a light brown color.
They were long haired & a faded brown like [[strikethrough]] [[mangey?]] [[/strikethrough]]^[[unkempt]] camels. They were tailless but had distinct ischial callosities & very long arms ^[[which]] [[strikethrough]]Their general shape[[/strikethrough]] gave them