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[[circled]] 28 [[/circled]] Our camp at Lung Ling was on a fine grassy meadow west of town and in the morning our route lay thru the town which is strung along this one long road.  It is a typical filthy Chinese town with Shans or other tribes being purely Chinese.  The Lung-ling valley is small & irregular & we soon crossed it & ascended the bare hills.  The route was a paved road leading to Yung chang.  South of the road on one of the spurs we could see 2 miles away a temple picturesly perched on a sharp conical peak which was well forested, the trees hiding the lower walls of the buildings.  The roadsides about Lung-ling are lined by rose hedges, which are now bearing single yellow flowers of sweet scent.  This is perhaps the rambler rose of Wilson Chinese flora.  The pear trees are now [[strikethrough]] on [[/strikethrough]] white with blossoms & the few peaches are also pink with flowers.  A few pink primroses & a carmine rosaceous flowered shrub [[strikethrough]] used [[/strikethrough]] bearing