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in great numbers & stared at us & every object we possessed. They could not be driven away. [[circled]] 27 [[/circled]] From Hsiang-ta we journied to Lung-ling in seven hours. The landscape remained the same type as previous days, very hilly & broken the road dropping down into many steep ravines with small creeks in their beds & ascending again, [[strikethrough]] at the [[/strikethrough]] there being no level stretches. At Lung-ling the magistrate told us there was fighting at Mong shih, a large Shan village 1 day south where we had intended to hunt game. The Shans are here raising opium & fighting the government troops who attempt to stop them. On this account the magistrate could not let us go there so we turned northward up the Shweli [[?Ring]] valley to the high pass on the Salween divide on the Teng-yueh Yungchang road. The night was cold & the climate here quite