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is malarious in summer.  The rice fields are cultivated by the villagers of Chaing-lung which lies 2000 feet above the river in a pine forest.  There are no native tribes here the people speaking Chinese only altho in features they show no Chinese characteristics.  The Salween in depth & shape is identical to that of the Mekong in the same latitude both being deep V shaped [[strikethrough]] affairs [[/strikethrough]] valleys with no level floor of [[strikethrough]] an [[/strikethrough]] much extent.
[[circled]] 23 [[/strikethrough]]  The night was rainy & hot & the morning dawned rainy.  At 8 A.M. I went down the River to the pea fowl haunts & saw two, the wet weather being favorable to them.  The first was met on the open sand beach where I shot the [[symbol: female]].  This bird was an old [[symbol: male]] & I did not see it until it flew up back of me with loud beating of wings.  I fired at it at 70 yds but the shot had no effect.  This bird I [[strikethrough]] found [[/strikethrough]] discovered by its tracks was within 30 yds of me at