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altho large is not on Davis map. Neither is the road or any other place west of the Salween between Chei-an-so & [[?Ho-mu-asu]] [[circled]] 30 [[/circled]] The day was spent on a wild goose chase for a shooting camp altho the 1st of April was still 2 days in advance. The Shan chief of Hsing-chen sent two soldiers as guides to a place he said was good hunting but when we arrived we found it in a deep ravine one side of which for several miles was clothed by dense primeval forest growing on so steep a slope that the Chinese could not cultivate the land & had allowed the forest to stand. This spot was high up on the rim of the Salween valley 3000 feet above Hsing-chen. [[strikethrough]] As [[/strikethrough]] We descended from here & found ourselves near our starting point at darkness but on our way to Ho-mu-asu. The rock foundation is largely granite in this range with some sandstone & shale. At this