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were seen & I feel that they are quite rare here. No palms were seen but a few large slender aloes grew in the forest. Giant bamboo filled all the creek beds. Biting insects & mosquitoes were not met with. At dark as I was waiting for bats in the forest I saw on the top of a [[strikethrough]]de[[/strikethrough]] tree two monkeys roosting on a dead snag well out of reach of leopards or other climbing carnivores. I stalked them & found that there were really two pairs of monkeys the pairs sitting beside each other & appearing as one. I fired but they got away wounded. A caught a palm civet, A new mammal for this place, also a fine polecat & genet. The Shan hunter shot a ♂ & ♀ of the large gray long tailed monkeys.
[[circled]]3[[/circled]] I went out with a Mafu to the same place where we saw the monkeys yesterday but we failed to find any as