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nostrils directed outward & very wide.  Their lips & mouth are also large & they are uguly in features generally, being a different Shan tribe.  Near our camp where many Zisphus trees bearing ripe yellow fruit which is edible & used by natives & monkeys.  The tree had spines but dark shiny leaves like live oaks in appearance.  None of the natives here eat monkey meat altho some of the hunters have shot specimens for us.  The skins I have not seen in use here either but the monkeys are quite wary & difficult to approach so they are probably shot at often.
In a weeks hunting the gibbons became so wary that they could not be approached without exercising extreme caution.

[[circled]] 8 [[/circled]] We spent the day at Hwe Peyn but without results.  A went out driving with 10 men & saw no game.  I could get no one to show me where the 

Transcription Notes:
Zisphus tree = Ziziphus