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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