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thorns like Crataegus & used as a hedge plant is also in flower. In the afternoon we reached a Valley on the sides of which were numerous Chinese villages the largest being Cha-an-so, [strikethrough]] Our [/strikethrough]] a place nearly as large as Lung-ling. One of the villages was a pottery manufactory, great numbers of conical white pots being in view. We made camp at the lower end of the valley on a fine grassy slope. These villages look quite desolate near being a series of dried up rice terraces, without any vegetation or crops growing. Only one crop of rice is grown here & this is not yet planted & the fields are left idle all winter quite a reversal in [strikethrough]] this [/strikethrough]] China. The creek is a broad shallow one & flows into the Salween east of the valley.
[[circled]] 29 [[/circled]] The night as usual at 5000 feet was cold. At this point we left the Yung-chang road & made straight for the ridge bounding the Salween on the west which we followed north.