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[[header]] Hsing-chen - New city. [[/header]]
At noon we had tiffin [[strikethrough]] under [[/strikethrough]] amid the pines under a pear tree in full bloom.  The country on the way was a series of deep valleys & ridges but cultivated vertically as usual & no extensive forest left.  After tiffin we dropped down in to the Salween valley filled by smoke & haze.  Where we entered the valley it is very wide, 10 miles but the surface or floor is a rolling sea of red clay hills.  The wideness continues as far as Ho-mei-sen.  A few Shans live here mixed in with the Chinese.  These Shan women wear great columnlar turbans as high as the bear skin caps of British guardsmen.  There dress is of black cloth & their feet are bear in marked contrast to the bound feet of their Chinese sisters.  We camped beside a village of mudwalled houses of Chinese type but the place is governed by a Shan chief who knew much of shooting game & was very friendly.  This village is Hsing chen (new city).  This place