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full blossom.  There is also a waxy cream white [[strikethrough]] spe [[/strikethrough]] flowered species with a heavy perfume like a magnolia.  No figs or palm  occur here but bamboo is everywhere the commonest forest undergrowth.
[[circled]] 4 [[/circled]] The day was clear & calm all morning the heavy wind not beginning until afternoon.  A shot an old [[symbol: female]] gibbon of large size but brownish.  He saw & shot at several large black [[symbol: male]]s [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] in trees on a steep sided ravine.  I went out with a Liso hunter who carried a cross bow gun with bamboo darts.  He was dressed in leather leggings & short wide knee pants much like the English of India wear.  His feet were bare & on his head was a turban made of a blue cloth twisted about his head in a rope like roll.  He carried my rifle & his cross bow on his back.  Just on leaving camp we heard gibbons calling below camp & we descended in