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monkeys lived so I remained in camp being afflicted with [[strikethrough]] a [[/strikethrough]] indigestion.  Weather hot & clear with a cool breeze up the valley from the west.
[[circled]] 9 [[/circled]] Just before leaving Hwe-peyn I took a walk near the River side & saw about a dozen jungle fowl in various openings.  With the 22 I shot a fine cock from a bamboo [[strikethrough]] into [[/strikethrough]] on which it perched when I flushed it.  Our road led back along the Nam-ting river nearly [[strikethrough]] to [[strikethrough]] opposite Man-ka & then out of the valley & over rolling hills.  No game was seen or monkeys herd.  The hill country is cultivated & without forest except a few patches of bush.  The only water we found for tiffin was a foul green slime pool used by buffaloes as a wallow.  After tiffin we went on 2 hours & passed thru open newly brown grass plain with large sink holes into which the water drains.  The rock seen was ledges of gray limestone.  At 5 P.M. we reached Mo-li-ling