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the general appearance of sloths
[[circled]]2[[/circled]] This  morning I went out with the Shan hunter for monkeys. We went down the road past the village & into the forest where we have heard the monkeys howling every day. At 10:30 we located a bunch of gibboons in a rather leafless budding tree of large size. They stared at us at 100 yds & I fired at them as they hung suspended by their long arms but did not kill any. They made off by dropping to the ground or at least to the lower trees & bushes. Soon afterward we heard some howling & had no trouble finding them by their notes. They were in low leafy trees & I again fired with the rifle but missed
They [[strikethrough]]I[[/strikethrough]] gave utterance to the long wailing notes while we stood looking at them & even after ^[[I]] fired twice they kept calling. Then disappeared thru the bamboos & underbrush. The note is a long wail beginning