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Name of camp, 14 day Man-Kah

[[circled]]March 16[[/circled]] We continued our hunt for old [[symbol: male]] gibbons but without results.  I located a herd by their wailing notes at 11 A.M. but they were timid & sneaked away altho I approached the trees they were in noiselessly & moved only when they called so as not to be heard stalking.  Their notes are quite variable when nearby & clairion like rather than a wail.  As I was leaving camp in the morning I shot a fine [[symbol: male]] jungle fowl.  A saw no monkeys.  A large snake which was caught in one of my rat traps set below camp frightened Tu-ni so that he did not bring it to camp & in the P.M. when I went with him to the place trap & snake were gone.

[[circled]]7[[/circled]]  We moved camp ^[[from Man-Kah]] up the valley over the back trail & crossed the river at [[Heve-peyn?]] & camped across the clear stream which enters here near a Shan village.  These people are not decorated by tattoeing & have very broad [[?platyrrhine]] noses with the